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Are they using touchscreens?
We're not hearing much from those who are using WIn8 as apparently intended on touch screens.
Anyone?
"Windows 8 Survey: Half Who Have Tried the OS Wouldn't Recommend It"
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New #111
Probably because the touch screen devices won't start rolling with Win 8 until after it's released?
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New #112
Win8 is clearly meant for touch screens. There are PC touchscreens out there. How does your new OS run?
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New #113
I've got tons of touchscreens (Used to work for a touchscreen company for 15 years) but no 24in ones. And on the desktop, one simply does not touch their screen. Trying to clean a large monitor every day after gooping it up with smudges and smears? Ok for a phone or even a tablet. But a large monitor with tons of text or trying to do phtotoshop work though finger smudges? Plus having to constantly reach across the desk to get to it? No thank you.
The metro/touch UI is simply NOT appropriate for any sort of serious desktop use. Tablet yes, surfboards yes, desktop no. Hello Microsoft! :)
(And as for the supposed new finger smudge proof touch surfaces... well I'll believe that when I see it!)
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New #115
So I loaded Win8 again in VBox and again I don't like it. I was loading some stuff and get "Close all open programs before continuing" - riiiight...Win8 left 6 things running with NO "close" button for ANY of them.
THAT alone is a deal breaker for me but that is only one of many reasons I don't like this release.
I'll try the next release candidate and pray it improves.
Regards,
GEWB
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New #116
You touch my PC screen and i will tear your arm off!
I'm just a bit OCD about a clean screen.
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New #117
And another thing....
I just had an afterthought from my previous post. What will happen if you install a large number of programs? With no start menu to organize it - you will have a lot of screen scrolling to do to get to them. I agree with the earlier post that mentioned that for desktop and laptop touchscreens your arm will get mighty tired trying to navigate thru the metro interface. Two big reasons to stay with Windows 7.
Snarks
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New #118
Yup, a problem for me, too. One of my Win7 boxes has well over one hundred Start Menu entries.I just had an afterthought from my previous post. What will happen if you install a large number of programs? With no start menu to organize it - you will have a lot of screen scrolling to do to get to them. I agree with the earlier post that mentioned that for desktop and laptop touchscreens your arm will get mighty tired trying to navigate thru the metro interface. Two big reasons to stay with Windows 7.
Snarks
So far in Win8 I haven't found a way to consolidate the HUGE icon items. I loaded Office 2010 Pro and everything has its own icon hanging out on the menu - what a mess!
Not only that, I can't move the icons to a screen location and have them stay put - Win8 thinks it knows a better location for them...NOT!
Goodness I'm beginning to real hate Win8, not just dislike it. I hope the next RC is better.
Regards,
GEWB
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New #119
You CAN organise the new start screen just like you could organise the old start menu... One thing that would help with the clutter would be if you could collapse the organisational sections. Like click on the title and expand/collapse that section...
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