windows 8 replies

[Larry]

Thanks, guys. Lost of useful information and referrals in there.

Noticed that windows 8 supports touch screens on desktops on hp and toshiba
machines. Wondering if anyone has used it that way and if it is a good
alternative to the mouse?

[knud van eeden]

I use e.g. Windows Phone 7, Android, Blackberry, iPhone, iPad, Microsoft Windows desktop or laptops and Apple laptops.

 

First fingers for a few years on e.g. the iPhone and iPad.

 

Since working with a *touch pen* (instead of fingers) on the iPad touch screen,

things are really starting going, that touch pen has distinctive advantages (e.g. being able to write

and create drawings quickly and 'naturally'.

E.g. using 'Bamboo' app (free) on iPad, a touch pen ($10 to $20) in combination with e.g. Evernote (free) to store it as PDF or Dropbox (free) to store it

as a Bamboo file, accessible from every device (desktop, laptop, smart phone, tablet, ...) having that program installed).

 

Mouse still using predominantly 98 percent of the time in general, also in TSE

(but there thus in combination with keyboard presses, I could do almost everything in the menus with a mouse, or everything

in the menus with a keyboard presss, or combinations. Typing and editing itself of course with the keyboard predominantly).

 

E.g. Microsoft Windows 8 is used currently accordingly to the statistics on 3 percent of the

desktop machines. Predominantly Windows 7 otherwise (around 50 percent of the desktop machines according to some statistics).

 

For the real e.g. programming work you will probably need to work with a keyboard, large screen, mouse.

 

E.g. the Microsoft Surface *Pro* tablet combines the full Microsoft Windows desktop possibilities + also tablet only.

For such machines Microsoft Windows 8 is ideal as it will combine the best of all worlds.

 

That Microsoft Windows 8 works fine with TSE has been confirmed by several sources.

 

with friendly greetings,

Knud van Eeden

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[knud van eeden]

At the end of the day you could use as well the mouse very well on the

tablet or smart phone screen (just why not thus in general, it is just another very well known input device).

 

But due to earlier design decisions at e.g. Apple by the great Steve Jobs moved

it in the direction of fingers (only).