Windows PCs require a mouse, with mouse gestures, clicks, "mouse-over", right-click.
Tablets require touch. it's a different usage model. Ask anybody who has tried to use a "Remote Desktop Connection" app on a tablet to log into their Windows PC. You HAVE to use a different -- mouse oriented -- finger model on the tablet. And it's tough. Do-able, but not trivial.
So, run the "same app" on a PC (mouse, no touch) and a tablet (touch, no mouse)? Somebody is pulling this claim out of their derriere, or it's not accurately described.
Good tablets will eventually get under $200. Whether MS will make them is a different question....
>> So, run the “same app” on a PC (mouse, no touch) and a tablet (touch, no mouse)? Somebody is pulling this claim out of their derriere, or it’s not accurately described.
My guess is, what they’re really saying is there will be a .NET runtime for the mobile devices, so “any” .NET app theoretically could run there.
It’s only a guess.
The new vesions of windows are supposed to have touch already installed. There are already windows tablets but they are just way overpriced.
Remapping IO is trivial. And yes, I’ve used VNC and RDP from both an iPad and an iPhone to work on Windows servers remotely.
Windows doesn’t require anything with mouse-over, gestures or right clicks. Those features are there for advanced users, but everything you can do with those you can do with the menus and left clicks, which a touchpad can handle fine. It’ll aggravate power users, but the other 95% of the install base won’t even notice, most of them don’t even know what those things are if you told them to do it.
That time is now. I just picked up this Android machine from Amazon for $199. I loaded Documents2go on it so I could read and edit my MS Office documents. I'm very pleased with it and it's a bargain at $200.