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If you have to use a stylus with it to click on UI elements that were designed to be targeted with a mouse, they have failed. I see UI elements in this screen

If you have to use a stylus with it to click on UI elements that were designed to be targeted with a mouse, they have failed. I see UI elements in this screen shot (specifically the tray icons on the taskbar) that are too small to be tapped on with a finger: http://www.pcworld.com/article/202234/microsoft_vows_tablet_comeback_but_when.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/202234/microsoft_vows_tablet_... The only way I can see Microsoft making a Windows tablet that doesn't fail is with a brand new Explorer.exe built for fingers and multitouch rather than mouse/stylus. Of course they'd need to do the same thing with Office as well. Apple took a much better approach by designing a new OS - it forces devs to not use small UI elements that are too small to be pressed with a finger.

eogas 16y ago
As someone who has done UI for iPhone and iPad apps, I have to mention that you can get pretty small before it becomes difficult to tap what you want. And rarely is the touch sensitive area represented solely by the bounding box of the icon you're trying to hit. It's difficult to tell from that image how big they actually are. And there's no way to know that the actual release will look anything like that. However, a coworker of mine last summer was working with Win 7 touch, which was basically Windows 7 running on a touch sensitive monitor, and he seemed to think it was relatively easy to use.