![]() Microsoft also established fairly strict guidelines governing how displays should integrate side bezels. These sensors are pricey, which clearly contributes to the fairly high price tags on Windows 8-ready desktop displays. The solution of choice for current-generation displays is ten-point capacitive touch sensor arrays, similar to those used in smartphones and tablets. This excludes touch technologies based on side-mounted infrared sensors, for example, as they often can’t detect occluded finger touches. To be Windows 8 certified, a monitor must be able to to react to five simultaneous touch points. Microsoft’s certification requirements for Windows 8 devices are fairly stringent. Fortunately, display quality is great at 1080p on many touch displays. Even 27-inch touch displays are limited to 1080p and no 2560-by-1440-resolution displays with capacitive touch are yet available for discrete, stand-alone monitors. You won’t find multitouch desktop displays with resolutions higher than 1920 by 1080 (also known as “full HD”). Most boast IPS (in-plane switching) technology, which offers a wide range of satisfactory viewing angles plus good color fidelity. Luckily, current-generation touch displays, though expensive, seem to be using high-quality components. And for the same reason, the current crop of touch-enabled monitors is fairly expensive. ![]() Windows 8 certified displays are already hereĪt this writing, Windows 8 isn’t yet a month old, so touch-ready desktop displays constitute a very immature product category. You just need to choose the one that best suits your needs and your budget. The good news is that numerous multitouch displays that fully support Windows 8 are on the horizon. But as you start to use more Windows Store apps, you’ll find yourself reaching out to touch your screen more and more often, and you may start to regret that your display doesn’t support touch. And if you work primarily in traditional desktop applications-such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, and various PC games-that’s probably true. Many traditional desktop PC users may feel that touch support is unnecessary for Windows 8. In fact, some new Windows 8 devices come with pressure-sensitive styluses that let you draw or paint digitally with predictable precision. ![]() Even in the standard Windows desktop, touch works better than it did in Windows 7. ![]()
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