Although Windows 7 has been a highly acclaimed successor to Vista something it has recently come under criticism for is not being tablet friendly. Of course this criticism has only arisen due to the rise of operating systems such as Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS which have been touch orientated from day one and began being ported to tablet form factors in 2010. Windows however has a much longer history and much higher functionality, which when is comes to squeezing that into a 10″ space understandably results in an interface synonomous with the mouse and keyboard that the PC has grown up with for 30 years.

However there are currently some alternatives to the standard Windows Explorer Shell and below we have some brief videos along with a mini review of each alternate user interface. For the most part they simplify various aspects of controlling Windows by making elements larger and touch friendly which could provide a benefit to users in specific scenarios. Nevertheless what these Windows alternative GUIs cannot address is specific applications, so if you rely on a particular application – say Microsoft Outlook as an example – then that feature rich but complex interface is going to remain unchanged.

Let’s dive right in a start with a look at Thinix.

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Next let’s take a look at FrontFace.

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Lastly we look at Scale / Seline

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