Touch is optional in Windows 8, but for many devices, it will be central to the experience. That makes it pretty important for touchscreen hardware to work reliably and well. Today, Microsoft's admitted that wasn't always the case with Windows 7 devices, and shared some of the particular issues it hopes to fix with Windows 8 hardware.
In the latest Building Windows 8 blog post, product managers Jerry Koh and Jeff Piira explain how swipes can be misinterpreted as taps, how taps can be missed, and how the mission-critical edge gestures in Windows 8 may not work at all, since touchscreens have been traditionally designed to be most responsive in the center and can lose functionality near the edges of the bezel. In testing, Microsoft shows...
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