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Isn't part of the problem that the hardware market hasn't yet put out a good selection of touchscreen devices (tablets, laptops, monitors) to take advantage of
by moskie 14y ago
Isn't part of the problem that the hardware market hasn't yet put out a good selection of touchscreen devices (tablets, laptops, monitors) to take advantage of Windows 8's core upgrades/features yet?
I was in Fry's Electronics last week, went to the laptop section, and couldn't find any touchscreen Windows devices in their sea of laptops they had on display. I had to ask a salesman, and he had to point out to me the one they had on display.
I imagine that once touchscreen devices and monitors become the standard, people will be more inclined to go with Windows 8, so I haven't written off its success yet.
Or, I guess the pessimistic flip-side to that is that the market has spoken, and there isn't a strong demand for such devices running Windows 8?
- synx508 14y agoI bought my Windows 8 machine with the assumption that, as a touch device, it would give me a true "Windows 8 Experience". I can summarise this experience with the word "atrocious". This is a pity, because the device itself, an Asus S200E, is rather wonderful and extremely good value. I think Microsoft needed to do a lot more testing, perhaps UAT, Windows 8 feels like a pre-alpha product in many places. I'm getting to the point where I'm going to have to write some blog posts or something because it is quite unbelievably bad in certain areas. I actually quite like it, but it could be that I'm just feeling very sorry for it. You have to feel a certain amount of pity for a thing that regularly claims to be importing 342 of 200 pictures, or has an app that encourages me to launch the actual app I'm running in order to fix a problem with the app I'm running. I could go on…
- rcthompson 14y agoWhy does my PC need a touch screen? I've never been using a desktop or laptop computer and thought "If only this had a touch screen, my task would be so much easier." For that matter, same question with s/a touch screen/Windows 8/g. Seriously, I haven't seen any commercial that tells me what Windows 8 will actually do for me. Live tiles and "doodle passwords" are nifty, but I'm not going to drop several hundred dollars for these.
- maxerickson 14y agoI'm still using a 5 year old laptop with XP on it. So take this in that context. I think the idea isn't so much that every PC needs a touch screen, it is more that it is a good thing for the OS to be able to take advantage of one that is there. The marketing message certainly leans towards "You need a touchscreen", but I don't think that was driving the technical choices 2 or 3 years ago. If there is a touchscreen and the OS knows about it, it might as well be able to run apps designed for touchscreens. (I find all the complaining about the missing start menu pretty irrelevant, hunt and click is a terrible interface compared to a searching launcher. But I guess they did a poor job of understanding who was going to end up using the new launcher.)
- andrewaylett 14y agoI've had a touch-screen laptop with Windows 8 for a couple of months now, and I wish all my PCs had touch screens. Not that I'd use it for every interaction, but sometimes it's just so much easier to swipe at the screen than to use the mouse or the keyboard.
- Bill_Dimm 14y agoI can't reach the monitor for my desktop computer without leaning forward. I think a desktop with touch would be an ergonomic disaster.