Windows 8 and two-point touch

I just bought a Dell ST2220T, which has an optical (infrared) touchscreen. It's only two-point touch, but that's okay, because the price was great and it's just a beautiful screen besides the touch functionality.

But now I've read that Windows 8 needs a minimum of 5 touch points. What the hell does that mean? Does it mean that I won't be able to use the touchscreen at all with my Dell ST2220T?

Hey, I can understand that I won't be able to do some gestures. Just because I only have a two-point touchscreen, doesn't mean other people with better touchscreens should suffer for that. But at least let me use the basic gestures. Scrolling, swiping, rotating, zooming, clicking. At least let me use my fingers on the Metro UI...

I'm probably wrong: I can't imagine touch functionally not to work at all on Windows 8 with a two-point touchscreen. I mean, it does work on Windows 7. And I've seen people playing with the Windows 8 beta on the Dell ST2220T.

Does anyone know the answer to this?

 

I've installed Windows 8 RP on my Toshiba Libretto W105 it has 2 Touch Points and Windows 8 works fine, what it says is "Limited Touch" but will install and function (or at least it should).

 

Thanks! That gives me hope.

I've also seen the Windows 8 RP on a Dell ST2220T on youtube, but I hope it will still work when Windows 8 is actually released.

Do you feel you miss something with only 2 touch points? Not that I'm going to buy a 5 point touchscreen, just because Microsoft tells me to. Screen quality > touchscreen, always. Oh, yeah, and price... But I'm just curious.

 

Well, my Libretto is used as my nighttime reader, so not really it does everything I need it to do except it doesn't support the minimum resolution for Metro so that is all I miss out on. My main machine which is the Series 7 Slate has 8 Touch Points.