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Is the hoopla around Microsoft Windows 7 much ado about nothing? We won’t really know until the operating system is released in 2010. Ever since Microsoft Vice President Julie Larson-Green demonstrated Windows 7 technology at the D: All Things Digital conference earlier this week, the technology world has been buzzing about the possibilities. But some analysts say the hype is premature. Windows 7 will tout multi-touch technology that lets fingers draw rudimentary images. During the demo, Larson-Green drew a landscape on a Dell laptop. The demo also included navigating an online map to find a nearby Starbucks. Microsoft figures the technology is a natural for image editing and navigation. A Cautious Approach Of course, this isn’t the first time the industry has previewed Microsoft’s touchscreen technology. Microsoft demonstrated its tabletop and kiosk-like displays at last year’s D: All Things Digital conference. Still, some analysts are cautious. Michael Cherry, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft, said he doesn’t count demos done by senior executives as big news, particularly demos which are so short and in which the company will not address questions about underlying technology. “I look at the demo as interesting, but you still aren’t showing me why I absolutely have to have it. I still don’t know what kind of hardware I might need to buy to use it. And I still don’t know if applications have to be modified to take advantage of it,” Cherry said. “So I am not prepared to sit on the edge of my seat for the entire time hoping it is something I will like.” Microsoft ‘Excited’ Nonetheless, the buzz is building, Chris Flores, a Microsoft product director, wrote on the official Windows Vista blog, about the possibilities of touchscreen technology on a PC. “What becomes even more compelling is when this experience is delivered to the PC — on a wide…
Astronauts To Deliver Pump for Balky Space Toilet
NASA rushed Wednesday to get a special pump on board shuttle Discovery to fix a balky toilet at the international space station, as the launch countdown got under way. The space station’s Russian-built toilet has been acting up for the past week. The three male residents have temporarily bypassed the problem, which involves urine collection, not solid waste. Russian space officials are providing the pump to launch aboard Discovery on Saturday. The shuttle’s seven astronauts arrived at Kennedy Space Center a few hours ahead of the start of countdown Wednesday afternoon. At the same time, a NASA employee was en route to Florida from Russia with the 1 1/2-foot-long pump and related hardware, which was packed in a diplomatic pouch and carried onto the commercial jetliner as 35 pounds of hand luggage. To make room for the pump inside Discovery’s crammed cabin, NASA was going to pull out some wrenches, a spare part for the space station’s oxygen generator, and a microbe-killing device for use in the European space lab. “Clearly, having a working toilet is a priority for us, so some of these things that we didn’t need for the next six months or so could wait,” said payload manager Scott Higginbotham. NASA is also squeezing in a Disney action figure, Buzz Lightyear. The toy popularized by the 1995 movie Toy Story will spend several months at the space station as part of an educational program for math and science teachers and their students. Meanwhile, the main cargo on Discovery is Japan’s Kibo lab, a 37-footer that’s as big as a school bus. Kibo means “hope” in Japanese. Launch time on Saturday will be 5:02 p.m. Forecasters put the odds of good launch weather at 80 percent. Shuttle commander Mark Kelly took pleasure in seeing Discovery on the launch pad, as he flew in from Houston. “We hear it’s…
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