Mouse and keyboard are used by most users to work with their computer and software. Microsoft tried to make speech recognition more appealing in Windows Vista but failed miserably. No one is speaking about this feature anymore in Vista and everything is back to where it was in Windows 3.11 when it comes to input technologies.
Windows 7 wants to make a difference in a few areas. With the success of the iPhone and the iPod touch the touch technology has come into a wider focus and many users seem to prefer it over those pesky buttons they had to press in previous iPod generations. While it is nice that Windows 7 will feature additional touch features and functions it will most likely not affect the casual PC user.
This is simply because someone would obviously need a decide capable of recognizing the user input by touch and deliver it to the operating system. Tablet PCs come to my mind and it could very well be that this sector will see a rise with the release of Windows 7. Still, if you got no extra hardware you will not be able to use the touch features.
Next to that Microsoft is very anxious about advancing speech recognition as well. I’m not that optimistic about this new technology either after seeing several Vista speech demonstrations that go terribly wrong.
Last but not least we have handwriting recognition which again needs special hardware to work at all. Even though speech recognition did fail in Vista it is in my opinion the most likely to succeed in Windows 7 simply because of the fact that most users already have headsets with microphones and do not need to buy additional hardware.
This could change dramatically if a PC hardware manufacturer was to create a device like the Asus EEE PC but with touch technology.
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