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>>If I was in charge of Windows that is likely what I would do. Make Windows for Desktop and Windows for Touch, with starkly different UIs and designs, but with
by cpleppert 13y ago
>>If I was in charge of Windows that is likely what I would do. Make Windows for Desktop and Windows for Touch, with starkly different UIs and designs, but with some emulation layer so people can run a touch app on the desktop (in like a sandbox window)
Emulation layers don't work; if your operating system needs to emulate needed applications no one is going to use it.
Microsoft already has a touch optimized OS: Windows Phone, just port it to tablets. Easy. Done. Of course then it has to compete with iOS and Android on its merits and not because it has Office and can interface with the windows ecosystem and can kinda run desktop applications.
- edvinbesic 13y agoEmulation layers do indeed work, just look at the Apple IBM to Intel transition and Rosetta for running G5 apps.
- magic_haze 13y agoThe entire reason why WP is lacking traction is because of IOS and Android's ecosystems, not because of any special merits in their OS code. Indeed, that is also why Windows proper is still dominant on desktop. Throwing away compatibility with the ecosystem would be the height of folly. (Also, there are office clients for all these platforms: they don't work as well as they do in Windows, but they do exist)