cardemaister: > I'm afraid Windoze 8 shall be almost catastrophically > unusable? > > End of Microsoft, and Nokia by the same token? > Well, the name 'Symbian' to my way of thinking sounds a lot more technical than 'apple'; I don't care if Nokia makes boots and galoshes. At least they didn't steal the name from the Beatles!
Windows 8's touchscreen paradigm makes a lot of sense - how many people use a mouse to operate their cell phone? "Already the vast majority of the laptops, tablets, and tablet-laptop hybrids that are launching with Windows 8 come equipped with a touch screen, and that should be taken as a harbinger of things to come. ." Microsoft Windows 8 Upgrade: $40.00 http://tinyurl.com/9m4zhvg