Microsoft has been showing what the next version of Windows would be and how innovative it can get when it comes to design computer interface. The next version will pack touchscreen technology system-wide, from Paint to Word, all major applications will benefit from this great technology the Big M is putting in people’s hands, finger pinch, image resize with two fingers and paint with both hands, those are the most out of the world features and we all will get crazy by the time Windows 7 hits the street. Long lines will be in front of any computer store, people will be fighter to get their hands in something so dramatic that will give us the WOW Factor all over again.

The only little problem with this new extraterrestrial technology is that you don’t need to travel the future to use it, the iphone has provided the same technology more than a year ago, but wait… Microsoft is anticipating what Mac OS X could have by telling people: See we provided the first touchscreen OS to the masses, Apple copied it. Smart. Microsoft will always succeed selling other people ideas.

The real problem is that Apple is not marketing Mac OS X to the masses, so Microsoft takes this advantages and looks like the real innovator to some people living under a rock or blind enough to see the real deal.

The iPhone has been the most copied, criticized, emulated, ripped off and trashed device of all time, but in the end everybody would like to have an iphone, even Nokia (the 800 lb gorilla) demonstrated a device that resemble the iphone and then said it was for research purpose. See an Engadget.com video below.

So, it is a mix situation, the Big M shows something to the public that may of may not end making or never be ready for mass consumption and that has been used by millions of people, then claims it is innovation in its more sincere form, Apple does little or nothing to promote its technology.

Let’s hope that Apple advertise a little more the Mac OS X and its technology to cure some people blindness and gain more marketshare at the same time.