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Lets hope Microsoft will finally listen to their users and bring back the Start Menu and useful features that was absent in Windows 8 though I'm not counting it, it seems like they think touch screens and tablet devices are the future.
This is irrelevant. Who wants to be sitting at a desk using a vertical touchscreen all damn day?And, it's unfortunate that there isn't widespread and affordable touchscreen monitors out there from major monitor manufacturers.
This is irrelevant. Who wants to be sitting at a desk using a vertical touchscreen all damn day?
Touchscreen devices are mostly toys. I've seen some businesses use them with success but it's really hit and miss with how much work you can do with them.
This is irrelevant. Who wants to be sitting at a desk using a vertical touchscreen all damn day?
Touchscreen devices are mostly toys. I've seen some businesses use them with success but it's really hit and miss with how much work you can do with them.
And, it's unfortunate that there isn't widespread and affordable touchscreen monitors out there from major monitor manufacturers.
That and manufacturers such as Dell and others have them on only laptops and all-in-one PCs.
How about those that build their own computers? Standalone touchscreen monitors are not cheap by any means, especially ones at respectable and higher resolutions.
Microsoft is completely delusional on that end thinking that everyone would have a touchscreen monitor when they purchase this OS.
So you're either going to be sitting with the monitor in your face, or with your elbows up on the desk all day? Does not sound very practical.I totally disagree. If there was touch on my desktop monitors, I would certainly get use out of them. Even if it was just for web browsing purposes. Especially on laptops I'm saddened when I can't just swipe scroll and pinch zoom.
This is irrelevant. Who wants to be sitting at a desk using a vertical touchscreen all damn day?
Touchscreen devices are mostly toys. I've seen some businesses use them with success but it's really hit and miss with how much work you can do with them.
Completely agree. The ergonomics, especially for current setups, simply don't support this as a viable alternative to keyboard and mouse. Touchscreens make perfect sense on mobile devices, due to how you interact with them. It's not the same on the desktop and that's one of the reasons I've considered Metro a joke for the start.
Not to mention I don't want to touch my monitor anyway. Who wants fingerprints all over the screen? Mobile devices have small screens that are very easy to clean. Most monitors aren't as easy.
yeah because sitting at a desk and using a touch screen monitor is the most ergonomic thing around...
So you're either going to be sitting with the monitor in your face, or with your elbows up on the desk all day? Does not sound very practical.
The point I'm trying to make is sitting at a desk with a keyboard and mouse and sitting in a lounge chair with a tablet are two totally different experiences. Microsoft is trying to make them one, which is wrong.
Microsoft is going to still market it and future operating systems based on Windows 8 as touchscreen OS first and foremost however. And, for the majority of desktop PC users out there, that's going to be a big issue. It's going to be misleading in some ways and it doesn't show how one can use a keyboard and mouse in the OS.
So you're either going to be sitting with the monitor in your face, or with your elbows up on the desk all day? Does not sound very practical.
The point I'm trying to make is sitting at a desk with a keyboard and mouse and sitting in a lounge chair with a tablet are two totally different experiences. Microsoft is trying to make them one, which is wrong.
I don't even understand this statement. Do you honestly believe that they just write something from scratch every time? That's not how software development works. Ever since Windows NT 3.1 was written, every later version of Windows to the present (NT3.1 -> NT3.5 -> NT4 -> 2000 -> XP -> Vista -> 7 -> 8) has been evolved from the previous codebase.they probably change win 8 and call it 9
Personally, I don't think Metro itself is the issue. The issue is more that the "desktop" is treated like a totally separate and seemingly unrelated environment. While it isn't, it almost feels like a weird Windows 7 emulator.
Rather than kill off Metro, they mainly just need to actually make the desktop feel like it's properly integrated.
Someone finally gets it! The whole ad campaign for Windows and Surface is around Metro, yet we are told 'the desktop is still there'. They need to work together.
Yep. As a Windows 8 user, the Metro experience needs to be improved and integrated better with the desktop. The multimonitor experience is much improved, but nVsurround and Eyefinity aren't properly working yet (mostly nVidia's and AMD's fault more than Microsoft's).
Better integration:
1. All settings options available in both settings menus, not just some here and some there. That way, whether you're using the Metro environment or desktop, you have full access to all settings.
2. Ability to keep the Start Screen permanently up on a monitor for multimonitor setups for easy access and viewing of live tiles.
MS rarely listens to it's customers
Surface commercials show the device with the touch covers with keyboards and track pads, so I don't see what's misleading here. Windows has worked with keyboards and mice for almost a generation, touch as it is in Windows 8 however is new so I don't know why you'd spend a lot of ad time showing off something that's been there for almost 30 years.
MS rarely listens to it's customers, so I doubt they'll get rid of metro or bring back the start menu. It is in their interest along with the rest of the industry to get rid of PCs and push everyone to get a tablet so 8 is their way of saying "if you want a better experience then get a tablet". Though they seem to completely revamp the GUI and where everything is every 2 releases so my guess is 9 will be pretty much the same as 8 but with some different core features. That's assuming they even call it 9, because they can't seem to decide on a naming scheme and keep changing it. Sometimes they use the year, sometimes they use the version number, sometimes they give it an actual name, other times it's a number... MAKE UP YOUR MIND MICROSOFT! lol Seriously though, wtf is up with that?
Well Microsoft needs to start listening to their customers and what they want, if their own product fails because it fails to meet customer's needs it will be entirely their fault.
Anyway, I hope Windows 9 will have an entirely new GUI because Windows Vista, 7 and 8 GUI looks almost the same, same icons and layout with some minor changes. So far Windows XP had its own GUI (Not counting Server 2003) if you know what I mean.