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Windows Touch
The new multitouch APIs in Windows 7 support rich gestures, such as pan, zoom, and rotate. Windows 7 also provides raw touch data inputs, advanced manipulation, and interties.
Coming soon
Windows Ribbon
The Windows Ribbon control helps improve usability by allowing developers to expose an application’s most frequently accessed features directly to end users. Users have an easier time finding and using application features, so their productivity goes up.
Direct2D, Direct3D, and DirectWrite
DirectWrite, Direct2D and Direct3D can be combined to deliver fast and compelling graphics on Windows 7 and puts extensive graphics capability into the hands of application developers. Through a new set of DirectX APIs, developers can easily add fast, scalable, high-quality, 2D and 3D graphics, text, and images to their applications.
Animation
The animation framework supplies a library of useful mathematical functions for specifying behavior over time and also lets developers provide their own behavior functions.
Windows Sensor and Location Platform
Windows 7 includes native support for sensors, expanded by a new development platform for working with sensors, including location sensors (such as GPS devices), and others such as an ambient light sensor or a temperature gauge, to create environmental awareness in Windows applications.
Coming soon
Internet Explorer 8
The new Accelerators in Internet Explorer 8 help you quickly perform your everyday browsing tasks without navigating to other Web sites to get things done.
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