Win8 is going to be another rushed-to-market bit of trash that the public won’t glom on to. Have you seen the requirements for the OS? They’re not really even marketing it to your standard desktop user. It’s completely a tablet/touchscreen OS, which I think is going to come back to haunt them much like Windows CE did.
Your average everyday user is comfortable with a MaK setup. Touchscreen monitors are too expensive for universal adoption.
Although the tile system doesn’t appeal to me, I think the system will work well as it is being designed to do. As I understand it, I will be able to continue doing whatever it is I am doing, from computer to cellphone to tablet, as smooth as possible.
No save, cut, paste, downloading or anything like that, or a simplified process of doing that.
I think, for most people, it will be a positive experience.
—Touchscreen monitors are too expensive for universal adoption.—
They’re also a pain in the butt. One of the reasons I got my Panasonic GF1 camera when the GF2 was about to be released was because the GF2 went to touch screen. The knob on the top of my camera that I use constantly is gone in the GF2. You have to work touch screen settings to get it to do the same things. and there is always the accidental touch of the wrong place - something I do so often with my Samsung Galaxy S phone that I’ve come to slamming the phone on the ground several times.
The one and only thing that gets me actually “break stuff” angry is failing computer tech.
I think touch screens are great for some games. That’s about it. I need physical feedback. Imagine working the steering wheel, shifter, gas and brake pedals on your car via touch screen. Blech!
The problem isn't the cost. It's that who wants to be using a touch screen unless on a small, portable device. On a desktop, you want a real keyboard and a mouse and / or touchpad.
And if you're going to be using your smartphone at a desk to do anything beyond yakking, this is more like how you want to be using it:
Meh, price is coming down and will continue to do so. Especially if it becomes more widespread. (A catch-22, but that's all of technology.)
Price isn't the problem, it's the form factor. It's simply not ergonomic to use a touchscreen at something approaching a perpendicular angle. There would have o be a radical form factor redesign to make touchscreen at a desktop environment work well.
Umm.. no. Nothing rushed about this one.
“Have you seen the requirements for the OS? They’re not really even marketing it to your standard desktop user.”
It comes in two versions: Desktop/laptop, then tablets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VnsHmVs1UA
“It’s completely a tablet/touchscreen OS,”
WRONG!
“which I think is going to come back to haunt them much like Windows CE did.”
Drawing wrong conclusions from wrong premises.