Bob, Is your judgement because you have sat down with a Windows 8 touch screen computer for an hour? I'm curious because I'm very interested in buying a small Window 8 laptop (11" screen). I've only played on it for perhaps 10 minutes in the store but I didn't really notice any problems using the touchscreen side of things. I found myself much preferring to touch the screen than use the mousepad. Then again, I was mostly in a web browser not a real desktop app.
Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Robert Sneidar <slylab...@me.com> wrote: > I'm going to venture an educated guess. From all I have heard, Win8 is > really optimized for touch interfaces. While you CAN use it on a desktop > system, there do not seem to be any compelling reasons for doing so, over > Win7. Steve Jobs had it right. Use a touch based OS on a desktop for just > an hour, and you will see why point and click is the way to go on these > systems. > > Desktop apps that need lots of screen real estate or need a lot of > processing power flourish on large monitor point and click systems, but > flounder on touch interfaces. Not all apps need the screen real estate or > use a lot of resources. These do well on tablet touch systems. I do not > think tablet/touch OSes are replacing desktop systems. I think that the > process is more like a re-calibration of the equilibrium between what most > people have needed all along, a simple tablet touch OS, and professional > systems that need the power and screen real estate to function well. > > Just my 2ยข > > Bob > > > On Jan 8, 2013, at 7:38 AM, Mark Stuart wrote: > > > Wow! > > I guess no one is using Windows 8. > > > > > > > > ----- > > Regards, > > Mark Stuart > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
