>>>>>>>http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/06/07/the-xbox-one-might-let-sonys-ps4-win-by-default/
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>>>>>>>Win8 (forced interface). Win8RT (useless). Windows Phone (awful marketing), Vista (speaks for itself)... and the hits keep coming.
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>>>>>>>Microsoft truly is the IBM of the 80's.
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>>>>>>I don't buy it. People said the PS3 was going to bury the 360 (because of the blu-ray player IIRC), but they've been neck and neck in sales. MS will adjust their XBox strategy and they will succeed.
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>>>>>I think they will adjust the strategy, but they'll do it after rollout and any window of opportunity. Just like Win8.
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>>>>Win8 is great on handheld devices. If anything it's ahead of the times. A few minor adjustments and it would be great on a desktop also, but they feel the need to try to force their user's to change.
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>>>I do like it on my phone. Too bad most people have never seen it.
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>>>Forcing users to change - that is the killer. They have been trying that since Vista and refuse to learn the lesson.
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>>>I've been a Microsoft fan for decades, but I'm working hard to jump ship at this point.
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>>For a change, wholeheartly agree with you. I've been working on Win8 for a couple of months now, but really do not understand why they want scare away the enterprise users. I'm still trying to figure out why they've put away the startbutton. without it I'm just totally lost. the search feature is fine as long as you know what you are searching for and remember the right word in the language you are working in. But more often than not, it takes me way more time to find anything than through the start menu. (you guess I've install a 3rd party start button)
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>all you have to do is start typing on the "metro" screen and it will show you a list of matches.
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>>Then when I try to open a PDF, ICON or other graphical file, it brings me into the metro environment where again, I'm totally lost and can't do anything with it. What the F**k were they thinking? I can see that for certain customers it is nice to dumb down the windows interface (hiding complexity), but for the experienced user who earning his money with the windows environment, this is an absolute nightmare.
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>Its the same foxpro mindset of refusing to advance with technology. I've always done it this way, why do I need to change. Would you go back to windows 3.1?
>Get with the times and learn to adapt.
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>>I do have a dual monitor setup with HD screens. Do they really think that its easier for advanced users to use touchscreens? come on, that is nuts...
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>I love touch screen for mobile and tablets. I find it a little cumbersome with desktops, but that is probably just my bias in action, being old school. I will adapt and then it will probably seem as natural as using a mouse.

John

I'm usually a late adopter, but it took me about 5 seconds to figure out that the mouse was a huge improvement over keyboard navigation. Not so with touch.
I love touch on my Kindle reader but find it annoying on my phone. I carry it in my pocket and the rubbing makes it think I'm doing something with it.
Regarding the desktop, the main issue I see with touch is that for people with short arms, being that close to the screen could make reading difficult. My arms are pretty long, but I'm usually a lot more than an arm's length away from the screen with my reading glasses on.