Most people only have access to Windows 8 on a desktop or laptop, without a touch screen. The interface lends itself better to touch screens, where I think it could do well.
Most people only have access to Windows 8 on a desktop or laptop, without a touch screen. The interface lends itself better to touch screens, where I think it could do well.
I thought it was interesting how the rest of the world does it.
When phone/desktop makers wanted to make a tablet they all went from phone up to tablet. Microsoft ditched the phone OS and shrunk the desktop to the tablet, thereby turning the phone Windows Phone 7 into an irrelevant niche product sort of like Palm's WebOS. (Heck, even HP took WebOS up to the tablet)
As a developer, I see the tablet as more of a grown up phone not as a shrunken desktop or crippled notebook. The desktop will always be the desktop. I see absolutely no advantage of staring at a 24" screen with oily fingerprints all over it and having sore shoulders from constantly hovering my hands inches off the table surface touching and swiping things on the screen.
On the other hand, the tablet boots Right Now and thus serves a totally different purpose. I don't know of anyone who has taken their desktop or laptop to bed and tried to read for a couple hours holding the display up while supine.
Voice control just isn't go to be compatible with the typical open office environments. OTOH, I can see that in Obama's new economy where the government views the remaining few Producers as overweight, they just might mandate mixing Microsoft's Kinect technology with massive video screens so we can get an aerobic workout doing a full day of Tom Cruise's character in Minority Report shuffling spreadsheets and composing presentations.
I'm currently putting together a project that puts a typical desktop app on the tablet, but simple things like sorting and indexing large compressed files harkens back to the days of the 640K PCs with extremely limited memory heap. What tablets out there have several gigs of high speed RAM?