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Why can't applications do both? Have a touch interface for cases where it's warranted, have a 'normal' interface for when it's not. I expect Office 2012/2013
by daeken 15y ago
Why can't applications do both? Have a touch interface for cases where it's warranted, have a 'normal' interface for when it's not. I expect Office 2012/2013 will do this.
- tptacek 15y agoThey can; that's what Apple does with iWork.
- thirdsun 15y agoSo did Apple have a touchscreen friendly version of iWork ready a year before the iPad launch? i'm pretty sure that the next office version will feature a native metro UI. The excel version from the video is just an existing version that hasn't been adjusted to touchscreens yet.
- thomasz 15y agoIt is also an important demonstration to business users and developers that their billions of dollars invested in keyboard+mouse oriented applications won't be made obsolete over night.