Meh. It looks nice, but there are clear problems. Like how do you keep the screen clean? Even if your hands are always clean you will get fingerprints and smudges and streaks on the screen. And how are you supposed to play Starcraft 2 with this new touch thing?
The keyboard and mouse aren't going anywhere.
Just because the engineers COULD make a computer run entirely from a touch screen doesn't mean that everyone will change. Why is a touch screen seemingly so great? How is touching the screen better than point and click? What if you meant to drag an icon on the touch screen but it thinks you meant to click it, and it opens and then you have to stop and close it and try to resume what you were doing?
10:1 says this is only the tablet interface. I know Anand and other sources are saying that it's the PC interface, but I sincerely doubt that it is or--at the very least--isn't completely optional.
the touch aspect is for devices that support it. On a pc you use the mouse same as normal. It's just them playing catchup with the interface, however this is just an add-on which means this portion looks like a bandage solution so that MS can play in the game and that it's not an OS designed around that kind of UI core experience.
Which right now has me thinking Windows 8 is more like Windows 7+
I don't think touch screens will replace keyboards and mice for business productivity. They're great for casual use or simple single-focus tasks. They blow for multitasking.
Showing it alongside the regular Windows apps really illustrates how big of a divide this is. I can imagine this functionality being something like an interactive lock screen, but I personally don't expect to be using it in real time alongside my traditional applications. I'm your traditional power user, though. Might just be me. It certainly is pretty, though.
It's just a somewhat evolved welcome screen geared towards the things most user do. All the good ol windows functions is behind it.
It could be real interesting going from your win8 phone to tablet and then pc, all while having a seamless experience. Even better if all 3 could share data effortlessly. I hope MS gets this right. I'd hate to see win8 become the next vista.
^ This. Is it possible they've got different UIs for desktop and tablet? Maybe they're forking off the tablet version. If the desktop UI is relatively the same as it is now, no need to show it. However, I would think there would need to be some elements in common between the two.
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The keyboard and mouse aren't going anywhere.
Just because the engineers COULD make a computer run entirely from a touch screen doesn't mean that everyone will change. Why is a touch screen seemingly so great? How is touching the screen better than point and click? What if you meant to drag an icon on the touch screen but it thinks you meant to click it, and it opens and then you have to stop and close it and try to resume what you were doing?
Which right now has me thinking Windows 8 is more like Windows 7+
It could be real interesting going from your win8 phone to tablet and then pc, all while having a seamless experience. Even better if all 3 could share data effortlessly. I hope MS gets this right. I'd hate to see win8 become the next vista.
Linux will be a viable OS when it has Steam, just saying
^ This. Is it possible they've got different UIs for desktop and tablet? Maybe they're forking off the tablet version. If the desktop UI is relatively the same as it is now, no need to show it. However, I would think there would need to be some elements in common between the two.