http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 1st 2010 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 1st 2010 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/
Except it's not MS.

I wonder what this will be like in reality. Like the Courier, concepts are very nice, but anyone can make a video of a concept UI. I have yet to see anyone other than Apple to actually make a super-responsive and useful touchscreen UI.

I hope they pull it off, but with Windows 7 underneath I think it's unlikely. Not because Windows 7 is bad, but because it's still just a re-skinned desktop OS. We've been there before.]]>Aug 1st 2010 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/From the look of the tape around the sides, it looks like they've got the antenna problem licked.... Not sure about the acetate peel though. How about a simple page swipe?]]>Aug 1st 2010 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/
You must mean good job UI Centric.

Microsoft has nothing to do with this interface.]]>Aug 1st 2010 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 1st 2010 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/To be fair it is in the style of MS's Typography based design...it looks very zune like. MS also has something to do with windows 7 running well on that kind of hardware.]]>Aug 1st 2010 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/
The need to halve the amount of time that the "press & hold" gesture took for the menu to come up. The 1 or 2 seconds was too long.

Also, it graphics when things were didn't seem very fast .. i think the graphics refresh rate was sucky. Probably the fault of the GPU?]]>Aug 1st 2010 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 1st 2010 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 1st 2010 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/
Because they need something on the market sooner than that.]]>Aug 1st 2010 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 1st 2010 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/
Very impressive!]]>Aug 1st 2010 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/You ask why they don't develop a touch-centric W7. Look at the history of W7 and how many times the project was rebooted before they achieved a stable product that didn't make end users run away screaming. It took years of work and the torture of Vista before W7 was released. I suspect plenty of um "compromises" and special, hidden tweaks were needed to get the product we see today. Jumping in the middle and trying to make a lean, fluid, tablet OS out of vanilla W7 is probably not an easy or simple task. ]]>Aug 1st 2010 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/
Yeah, this isn't a concept. This is a real working prototype. Obviously they still need to optimize the code, but this is definitely impressive! An intuitive UI that uses the power of Windows 7 while separating the user from it sufficiently that they never have to go to the default view. And it's certainly an original way of getting rid of applications: just peel away!]]>Aug 1st 2010 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Your right. That's hardware. Just stick in a mobility 5850 and we're set.]]>Aug 1st 2010 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/
"I have yet to see anyone other than Apple to actually make a super-responsive and useful touchscreen UI."

Wait, what? Have you never *used* Android? Specifically current versions of it? Statements like this are astounding. I used to own an iphone 3g (iOS 2) and I can tell you that I am positive than Android 2.1 is better.]]>Aug 1st 2010 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/You're right Ed T.
Look, we all know how bad ass a tablet with a 100% fingerable w7 OS would be. I'm an OSX person but for the rest of the crowd it would be great. But I don't think MS would put out a 100% fingerable OS for the tablet format. I don't feel they have the desire to go down that road. ]]>Aug 1st 2010 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/"I have yet to see anyone other than Apple to actually make a super-responsive and useful touchscreen UI"

I bet you have never used a Zune HD, its one of the best UI out the, the Metro UI on WP7 its kinda based on it.

]]>Aug 1st 2010 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/
It's so gimmicky and laggy.]]>Aug 1st 2010 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/
You're very right. No amount of Windows 7 skinning is ever going to amount to any shred of competitive advantage over the iPad. Windows 7 will still be a bloated desktop OS with all its DLLs, registries, viruses and soup if drivers.]]>Aug 1st 2010 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/
I think he was talking about UI's on tablets and lets be honest, everyone has basically made Android look pitiful at this point on the platform. As much as I love Android, everyone dun goofed up. It's going to take Google to step in again with Android and make a tablet, just like they made the Nexus One to show all these goons how to do it right.]]>Aug 1st 2010 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/
Bloated? You mean it's a real OS as opposed to a smartphone OS that was shoved into a larger form factor?

You can't even begin to compare the functionality of the iPad to a full fledged Windows 7 tablet.]]>Aug 1st 2010 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 1st 2010 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/
Good point. I guess credit does have to be given to Microsoft and Windows 7. UI Centric simply created a beautiful skin. Which I believe might be the most important feature concerning usability on a mobile device like this though.

I'm curious as to weather or not UI centric might have had something to do with windows phone 7 and Zune.

If not, you're absolutely right in saying that this is where their inspiration came from. ]]>Aug 1st 2010 10:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 2nd 2010 4:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 2nd 2010 6:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 2nd 2010 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 2nd 2010 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/You should look at the Thinix Touch 6 UI for Windows touch devices -- vastly improves touch in Windows. http://thinixtouch.com]]>Aug 5th 2010 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 1st 2010 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 1st 2010 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 1st 2010 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 1st 2010 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 1st 2010 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 1st 2010 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/also eagerly awaiting the hurricane/palmpad]]>Aug 1st 2010 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 1st 2010 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 1st 2010 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/
Looking forward to Win7 Tablets...]]>Aug 1st 2010 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 1st 2010 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 1st 2010 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 1st 2010 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 1st 2010 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/How does it look sluggish? If you want sluggish play with the iPad. ]]>Aug 1st 2010 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/of course it is, it's not the final product nothing looks responsive right off the bat.
It looks pretty good to me except for the page peeling which i'm sure they will iron out the kinks]]>Aug 1st 2010 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 1st 2010 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 1st 2010 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/Aug 1st 2010 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/page-turning-macallan-ui-will-hit-a-windows-7-tablet-this-year/
I'm in a agreement with you; the UI looked sluggish. They claimed it was fast and responsive on their test hardware, but that lag during page "peeling", even with the demonstrator's slow movement, isn't what we expect in today's standards. The bar is FAR higher than that.

Unresponsive and sluggish.]]>Aug 1st 2010 5:35PM