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So if Acer comes back with a new machine that they call the uShoot where it runs windows 8 and has a large revolver pointed at your head. The operating system
by dromidas 14y ago
So if Acer comes back with a new machine that they call the uShoot where it runs windows 8 and has a large revolver pointed at your head.
The operating system is set up so that there is a big button on the touch screen that says 'fire'.
Would you then blame Windows for being an operating system in which some 3rd party manufacturer could use it in a way that would injure customers?
Microsoft has made sure (as noted by the main thread poster) that it's directly created windows products are ergonomically sound.
- jpxxx 14y agoDisregarding whatever is happening with that metaphor - All that's being put forth here: vertical touch has a different ergonomic profile, potentially a negative one, and it hasn't extensively been deployed in this industry until now. The sole novel input scenario with Windows 8 and its first generation hardware is that it enables vertical touch. If nobody uses it at all, then it's just another laptop and no harm's done.
- dromidas 14y agoIt's not that nobody uses it. I was meaning more that 3rd party vendors are the ones responsible for making sure it is safe if they put it in designs that Microsoft didn't officially support. Unless the main author was intended it to be a PSA type thing to let consumers know that the more commonplace touchscreens will allow them to create ergonomic nightmares and that they should be as aware of it as they are of keyboard/mouse placement and chair height (In which case I agree whole heartedly.)