Sollution

There is a driver that I had installed on a different machine in order to test multi touch with the use of two mice. This is very handy if you do not have a multi touch monitor. I tried plugging my multi touch monitor into that machine and it worked. Seeing that the only difference was the muli touch driver for multiple mice I decided to try and install it on my other machine and it worked!

So if you are having difficulty getting muti touch to work on in your WPF application try downloading the Multi Touch Vista Driver and following the install directions. It worked for me!

The main thing that is different design wise is that it has the ribbon like other 2007 Office programs. They must have done some significant work to make it snappier because it definitely is. I’m guessing using the 64bit version helps as well.

Here are some of the great features that it has.

1. It is 64 bit.
2. Does not crash as much as my 2007.
3. Organizes emails into conversations. This is similar to gmail. (at first I was annoyed but now I like it)

The quickness of it vs. 2007 and that it has a 64 bit version is a huge improvement, but beyond that it doesn’t seem to me there are too many other reasons people will want to upgrade. For me these two are enough, but others may think about holding off.