Touch-screen notebooks are nothing new, especially in the realm of handheld smartphones and PDAs, but due to disappointing hardware and the lack of OS support, they’ve remained a small market niche ...

With Windows 8, Microsoft is bringing touch-screen interaction from tablets and smartphones to traditional PCs. Many Windows 8 ultrabooks and tablet/laptop hybrids include touch, and some desktop ...

Windows laptops have one big advantage over Macs: touchscreens. I’m not saying you should switch to a touch-first PC experience and throw away your mouse. But too many people discount the usefulness ...

Microsoft launched the Touch Pack for Windows 7 last year to help showcase some of the touchscreen capabilities of Windows 7. But it was only available to OEMs, which meant that if your computer ...

Something you haven’t heard a great deal about in Windows 7 is the added support for touch user interfaces. The touch interface was demonstrated at the 2008 PDC conference but the presenters didn’t go ...