Merry Wednesday, and welcome to lunchtime! It’s officially time to stop working, start stuffing your face, and fill up on the latest tech news you’ve missed so far this morning.

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Windows 7 is turning out to be full of surprises. First there were all those fancy new technologies, and then the new Taskbar. Now we’ve learned it’ll support fancy mouse gestures too.

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Eager for a close-up look at the next generation Windows 7? Take a peek at this video and you’ll see the new Taskbar in action. It’s a lot like Apple’s OS X Dock, but goes much further than simply launching applications, opening up tons of new functionality.

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Now, Vista may be sluggish, wheezing brute that doesn’t play nicely on underpowered hardware so you could be forgiven for thinking that Windows 7 would be even worse, but not so. Turns out it’s pretty nimble on lightweight specs.

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Microsoft has finally ripped the covers off Windows 7, giving it a public airing at the Professional Developers Conference. The good news: it looks great. The bad news: Apple’s OS X already boasts most of its new features.

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Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer has been hinting at the new features of Windows 7 for a while, but now we’ve got a few firm details of what’s in store from the Big M’s next-gen operating system.

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We’ve heard loads about Microsoft’s next-gen operating system, Windows 7. It’s understood to support multi-touch Surface touchscreens, voice control, ultra-deep integration with Windows Live and come with fewer add-on apps to make it faster than ever.

All that’s missing now is a name, and Microsoft just confirmed that it’ll be called…

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Microsoft’s beavering away on the next generation of Windows, and rather than piling in new features and applications, it’s actually stripping out lots of programs to make the operating system smaller and faster.

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