# Windows 7 First Looks Video

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-first-looks-video/49139
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [May 27, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-first-looks-video/49139 "2008-05-27T22:23:23Z")
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### Author: ![RuBiCaNT](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rubicant/32/7622_2.png) [@RuBiCaNT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RuBiCaNT)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-first-looks-video/49139/1 "2008-05-27T22:23:23Z")

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> **[Windows 7 Features Revealed](https://gizmodo.com/393568/windows-7-features-revealed)**
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> Click to viewClick to viewHere's what Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer revealed about Windows 7 at All Things Digital a few minutes ago. The biggest "feature" is the touch and multi-touch integration, which takes many of its roots from...

Kinda cool.

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### Author: ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-first-looks-video/49139/2 "2008-05-27T22:30:55Z")

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didnt apple patent the two-finger zoom?

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### Author: ![Bacon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bacon/32/7230_2.png) [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2008, 4:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-first-looks-video/49139/3 "2008-05-28T04:41:22Z")

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Interesting to see the concepts from their surface concept being applied here.

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### Author: ![RuBiCaNT](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rubicant/32/7622_2.png) [@RuBiCaNT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RuBiCaNT)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2008, 6:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-first-looks-video/49139/4 "2008-05-28T06:15:52Z")

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> [@boxxa](#):
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> didnt apple patent the two-finger zoom?

pfft… Patents. This is MICROSOFT…

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### Author: ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2008, 6:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/windows-7-first-looks-video/49139/5 "2008-05-28T06:19:14Z")

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> [@boxxa](#):
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> didnt apple patent the two-finger zoom?

maybe, but sort of doubt it. They were using that (dragging apart for zoom in, together for zoom out) a few years ago when video’s of the surface first showed appeared.