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Curt:
From this video it seems to me that Microsoft wants me to touch my screen all of the time. Quotation from the end of this video: "This is the new version of Windows, it's gonna run on laptops, it's gonna run on desktops, PCs with ( ? ) keyboard, ... , it's gonna run on everything." As it is now, I can barely reach my monitor. I guess Windows 8 will make me need longer arms!!!

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/29/improvements-in-windows-explorer.aspx http://www.eightforums.com/





Surely he must be (babbling and) talking about cell phones?
 :tellme:

Carol Haynes:
Questions:

1) How many people are going to buy touch screens and chuck out perfectly good LCDs?
2) How many businesses will buy this? Business lethargy killed Vista (along with a crap OS) but there has been a big reluctance to move to Win 7 too - do MS really thing business will be interested and if not they have lost the biggest part of their market share.
3) How many people will still want this after the novelty wears off?

Yes on tablets and phones, but laptops and desktops?

I know quite a few people with all in one computers with touch screens but I have yet to see anyone use it once they have have had it more than a week!

barney:
Let's see ... I'm gonna rush out and replace all four (4) of these 24" monitors, along with the smaller ones?

Hm-m-m-m.  Prolly not.  I'm with Carol on this one, mostly ... tablets, phones, touch makes sense ... touch on laptops could make sense for some applications,  but most business usages of which I'm aware require lots of text, very little navigation.  Browsing might benefit, maybe some graphics programs.  But can't you just see AutoCad by touch?  (How finely can you calibrate your fingers?  I have trouble with Sudoku or Crosswords on a seven (7) inch Nook  :P.)

rgdot:
This will become 'an additional layer' type thing. 90% of serious PC user will turn it off and move straight to traditional desktop. There is a reason the desktop has changed little and it's not because of lack of innovation its because it works.

steeladept:
I am trying really hard to reserve judgement, but really, how bad do they want to follow Apple when they try to turn everything into an iProduct?  Touch everything?!?  I don't get it.  The one thing I do note, however, that makes me think it is likely to either be a big fail or a me too, is that they are STILL trying to make a single platform for all uses.  That is why Apple won the tablet market they were trying for yeaarrrssss prior to generate.  Apple IOS may be a pared down version of OSX, but it is still NOT OSX.  It is it's own platform.  If Microsoft will let go of the "One platform to rule them all!" attitude, they *might* be able to start making headway again.  Heck, they dumped it for the XBox and look how successful that turned out.  Maybe not clear and away winner, but certainly a worthy rival to the Playstation and generally considered better than the Wii.  And based on an OS that was made for an MP3 player!  The only thing I see coming from this if it stays as we see on the first looks is they will alienate their base without having the user-base to tackle Apple's biggest stronghold - the mobile phone/tablet market.

If you own stock in Microsoft, watch this OS VERY carefully.  It will either be a dud that will propel Microsoft onto the ash-heap of history, or keep them viable for the next release.  Either way, it doesn't have what it takes (yet anyway) to propel it the way XP & 7 have.  At best it will be to 7 what XP was to Windows 2000.  

P.S.  I really do like most Microsoft products, so I really hope I am wrong here.  It really is too early to tell, but that is my gut instinct from what they have shown so far.

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