Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently rolled out some user interface bits from the forthcoming Windows 7 at The Wall Street Journal's "D: All Things Digital" conference. Here's the official Microsoft video demo. The OS is currently scheduled to hit late next year.

Although everyone is talking about it, few seem to understand what all this means. Here's what it means: After several decades, the death of the WIMP user interface is at hand. (WIMP stands for Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pointing devices.)

Windows 7 contains core user interface functionality that researchers have been working on since the 1980s. It's exciting, and will radically change the way you use computers forever.

Here are the three things you need to know about Windows 7.

Vishal Gupta wrote Death of WIMP? Strange but interesting.

sounds interesting here too...i think ye m$ surface wale feature laenge....mouse n pointer can b replaced by touch screens...bt what can b alternative of windows and icons???

Vasu Jain wrote  Vishal Gupta wrote Death of WIMP? Strange but interesting.     sounds interesting here too...i think ye m$ surface wale feature laenge....mouse n pointer can b replaced by touch screens...bt what can b alternative of windows and icons???

means mujhe naya PC lena hoga for Windows 7