Microsoft Against Carrying Both Tablet And Laptop

[Guest]

Windows 8 will divide Users for sure.

Purists that want a proper Desktop Operating System and Social Media Users whose main goal in computing is to see which of their latest FB friends had marmite toast so they can tweet about it!

Win 7 will do just fine in the Gaming arena for many more years, and Mint has become my main workstation thanks!

 

[jonjonjon]

ms doesnt want you to carry a laptop because they want you to buy their new tablet. people carry both because touchscreen tablets are useless for anything other than checking email and watching youtube. add a keyboard and mouse to a tablet and you get a laptop. i dont get the whole tablet thing.

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]Estix[/nom]I think that if we truly live in a society whose most terrifying plight is that we obligate ourselves to carry a laptop and a tablet (and a smartphone), then we don't need a solution; we need to change our habits and decide what we want, especially since, for 99% of users, the usage scenario is "facebook, email, and the occasional youtube video".All that said, I still cringe when I read "apps for the desktop". I do not have a phone nailed to my tower. I do not get fingerprints all over my monitor by touching and swiping it. It's a desktop, and it runs "programs".[/citation]


call me old school , (and i take a lot of flak from various people over this) but i got 1 solution for ALL my digital needs ... i own 1 desk top ... no cell phone no lap top , no smart phone, no pad-puter toy, just a good ol desktop. Oh and i keep an old school wired phone next to my desk top.

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]Estix[/nom]I do realize that, of course. "Application" has been around for decades, but "app" started with the iPhone. The point is that the term is now back-ported from phones, hence "apps for the desktop". Essentially, the phone term now has preference, and "apps for the desktop" implies that "A desktop can be as useful and fun as a phone!", which most of us would find a rather ridiculous (or even insulting) statement, but is exactly the intent of the phrase.[/citation]

i just hate the word app because it is a lazy a-- way to shorten a word that is NOT really that long of a word any way. it sounds gay, like apple employee trying to sound cool by shortening a word . it's just lazy. i still say application , or program myself.

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]moricon[/nom]Windows 8 will divide Users for sure.Purists that want a proper Desktop Operating System and Social Media Users whose main goal in computing is to see which of their latest FB friends had marmite toast so they can tweet about it!Win 7 will do just fine in the Gaming arena for many more years, and Mint has become my main workstation thanks![/citation]

becareful Ms might just make their next iteration fo DX for win 8 a+ only just to force gmers to use their new s--- OS