14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 was introduced at the end of May 2009, as a collection of content designed to allow end users to take full advantage of the new multitouch capabilities of the operating system on touch-enabled computers. The Touch Pack for Windows 7 continues to be available exclusively to PC makers (OEMs), with the promise that the games and applications of the package will be offered for download. Microsoft informed that users already running Touch Pack for Windows 7 along with the operating system on a machine with a quad-core processor could experience freezes of the Rebound components.
“Consider the following scenario: you have a Windows 7-based computer that supports multitouch. The computer uses a quad-core processor. Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 is installed on the computer. You try to start Microsoft Rebound. Rebound is included in Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7. In this scenario, Rebound stops responding,” the company explained.
The Redmond company is already delivering a hotfix designed to resolve the issue. Affected customers can grab the fix from Microsoft Support and deploy it in order to prevent Rebound from becoming non-responsive. Customers that are not impacted by the issue described in this article are advised to not implement the hotfix. Microsoft has not offered a deadline for its plans to make Touch Pack available to customers outside of pre-loaded on new OEM computers. However, the bits made their way into the wild, with leaked copies of the Touch Pack available for download almost immediately after the package’s official introduction.
“Microsoft Rebound is a game in which you use your fingertips to move Tesla balls with an electrical field between them to try and catapult a metal game ball into your opponent's goal. Play against the computer or challenge a friend and battle it out in the electronic court for the championship of the Microsoft Rebound circuit,” reads the description of Rebound.