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Windows 7 offers several improvements for people who like to go mouse- and keyboard-free. They're available only in the Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate editions of Windows 7.
At last, you can take notes on your tablet in algebra class: the new Math Input Panel recognizes handwritten math expressions. Once your equation is recognized, you can insert it into a word-processing or computational program.
With Windows 7, handwriting recognition is faster, more accurate, and supports more languages—including breakthroughs for East Asian writing systems.
Personalized custom dictionaries help with the recognition of specialized vocabulary (like medical and technical terms), and text prediction speeds up the input process to make your note-taking really fly.
Multitouch capability (with the right hardware) frees you from your pen, letting you right-click, scroll, and work with pictures using your fingertips.
The gestures are intuitive: press and hold to right-click, slide two fingers apart to zoom out and back together to zoom in, flick to scroll through a page, and touch two points and rotate to turn an image.