Macallan Joins the Win 7 UI Race with a Sexy Little Interface

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3 Aug, 2010 12:30 am

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For a while I turned my nose up at Windows 7 tablets, quoting a OS that’s not customized for touch, battery life basically that its got no tablet customization at all. The reason the average consumer seems to be drawn to the concept is that they can run thousands of third party apps that they are already familiar with using. But you’ll quickly discover that they weren’t designed for a tablet and you really do need a mouse and keyboard to hit some of they very small buttons the programs offer.

At Computex I changed my tune, actually so drastically that my article was being quoted around the internet! The Expo PC had their tablet, which felt great and was responsive, but it was running a customized UI on top of Windows 7, all of the advantages of windows programs but the ability to navigate the ecosystem with touch friendly design.

Macallan is joining the Windows 7 UI race, but sans tablet, they will be launching their interface later this quarter. If you want to check out this sexy little UI here is the video below.

Via Liliputing and NetbookNews.de


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  • Garret

    Sexy? That means sexually attractive. That can't possibly be what you meant, right? I'm sure you meant attractive, but how is this interface sexual? Also, Windows 7 already has a UI that works great with touch.

  • nicole_scooter

    Maybe you're right…I should spend more time with men and less time look at UIs. . . :P

  • Peter

    Windows 7 has a terrible touch interface for fingers, and most of these consumer grade tablets will be coming out with capacitive displays focused on finger touch and no stylus in sight. The two make a terrible combination with it's current interface.

    Also, sexy does not have to mean sexually attractive. Never heard anyone called something sexy before?

  • Peter

    There is also the ecosystem of applications that is a problem. Even if you put on a custom interface on top built for finger touch, like the ExoPC tablet, the problem is the majority of apps are designed for mouse interaction. Working your way through the menus of a default Firefox install, switching tabs in it, or not being able to scroll a huge bookmark menu (which relies on hover) is one example of many.