Welcome to the future. Going forward you will be developing directly on your phone, so it makes sense that you can run all of your software on your phone. Your phone will be super powerful and you'll plug it into a dock at work giving you keyboard, mouse and multimonitors. The windows desktop is legacy software. Embrace the change, for the only constant in the universe is change.
It takes some getting used to, and no doubt people will find ways around the things they don't like. I have windows 8 installed on my eee slate and it makes the thing usable. It came with Windows 7 and it was horrible. That said, the battery life is horrid (being that of a laptop not a tablet) and I can't use it with the bluetooth keyboard (don't like it being not connected to the screen for some reason). I just got a dell xps 13 which i'm loving but I've not decided yet if I upgrade it to Windows 8 RC or wait. Think I'll wait for now. no touch screen on that. Thing that will address my issues (not issues... too minor to be issues). Get something like Asus Transformer Infinity that has touch screen AND keyboard that can be attached/detached, and will run Windows 8. I heard rumours that there may be a device that can dual boot Android and Windows 8. That would be sweet. might even hold off buying the Transformer Infinity to see if they release something that dual boots. Theres an advertising image being shown at a conference with windows and android logos floating in droplets of water. Waterproof as well!??! :) I'm excited about it. I can still run the software I need (pin it to the start window. You can customise what shows there after all.. pin the things you do want to run, remove the rest!) and it makes touch screens useful. Bring it on! On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, I’ve downloaded and installed Win8 preview and I’ve only been using > it for 20 minutes or so. > > > > So I get a big candy coloured Start screen and there is absolutely nothing I > want on that patronising childish screen, so I go to the desktop and find > there are no menus or buttons anywhere to actually do anything. The Start > button is conspicuously absent. I couldn’t get back to the Start screen, so > I just pressed buttons randomly until I think the Windows key took me back. > Phew! > > > > Then I had to run 5 minutes of web searches to find out how to get into > Control Panel to change the region formats. Hell they’ve clever in tricking > me, I had to just start typing “Control Pa....” and it appears in a search > results. I would never, ever have thought of that. > > > > It turns I can right click the Start screen and click All Apps to get a > mutated Start menu, which isn’t so bad, but I wouldn’t have quickly thought > of that either. > > > > My first impression is that Windows 8 has turned my PC into a gigantic > mobile phone with one app filling the screen and running at a time. I’m not > impressed, I have to do many things at once and get to them quickly and > switch between them. It’s not obvious yet how this is possible in Win8. I > know that each new Windows usually creates some sort of usability change, > shock or paradigm shift, but this is ridiculous, it’s barely even Windows > any more. Was that the marketing decision? I will have to read tutorials > like a newbie to even figure out how to do anything in Win8 because > absolutely nothing is obvious, how embarrassing. > > > > Perhaps in a few days I’ll learn more and feel better, but I’m just shocked > by how much it has changed. > > > > Greg > >
