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For all the deserved hate Windows 8 got, the tablet experience was fantastic - the experience of running multiple apps side-by-side in particular was better tha
by Analemma_ 7y ago
For all the deserved hate Windows 8 got, the tablet experience was fantastic - the experience of running multiple apps side-by-side in particular was better than what the iPad has to this day.
It's mindboggling to me that Microsoft must have the code for that sitting around in a repo history somewhere and yet tablet mode on Windows 10 is still such a mess even after years.
- nxc18 7y agoI pulled out my Surface RT yesterday and it is almost exactly what iPad multitasking is. It really is mind boggling that Microsoft fumbled that so bad - great tech but some really user-hostile business decisions cost them dearly.
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- GekkePrutser 7y agoYes, tablet mode on Win8 was good! The problem was ramming it down the throat of all the desktop users too. I still don't understand how such a big company can make such obviously bad decisions.
- ChuckNorris89 7y ago>I still don't understand how such a big company can make such obviously bad decisions. Simple, resume ego driven development from someone who just want to climb ranks.
- WorldMaker 7y agoBut it wasn't a terrible desktop experience: in 8.1 you had a strongly tiling window manager and a lot of apps designed for phone widths or smaller to tile. The tiling was horizontal only, but you could do a lot on a two widescreen monitor setup. It moved a lot of cheese, sure, but it wasn't offering as much an "inferior" desktop usage as people seemed to think it did because they never bothered to learn what it did offer new/different/better.