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Amidst all of the multi-touch technology that is being produced and tested, one of the greatest achievements is the attempt at a multi-touch laptop. While Microsoft has been working with multi-touch capabilities on desktop computers, as well as smaller digital devices such as MP3 players and cell phones, this is one of their first attempts at working the technology into a portable laptop. While this looks to be a very promising step in the direction of multi-touch technology working towards the mainstream, many have their doubts. One of the most common complaints is that the touch screen reaction time is too slow, and some say that you would be better off just using the old mouse and keyboard if you want to get anything done

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While most people know about the Microsoft Surface computer by now, at the same time there are a number of other areas within the Microsoft company where Multitouch technology is being used. For example, Microsoft has been hard at work bringing Multitouch technology to bear in terms of interactive advertising and it is something that they were able to demo earlier this week. While Multitouch is just one avenue of advertising that Microsoft has been pursuing, at the same time it is one of the most innovative as Microsoft attempts to expand their operations and secure their bottom line. Multitouch was clearly the winner in terms of new ideas, as other advertising methods that were demoed such as the speech recognition advertising are methods that

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