The win8 store has plenty of touch enabled apps. Whether Kurt is going to be able to find something equatable to what their app does I don't know.
Michael Oke, II 661-349-6221 Contents of this and all messages are intended for their designated recipient. On Feb 22, 2013, at 8:16 PM, Dan Covill <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/22/13 01:05 PM, Kurt wrote: >> Dan - my Boss likes your idea - of grabbing some other Data type app - to >> compare it with. But, unlike the world of Androids - you think there are any >> Free or Demo apps out there? Just curious... > > Hi, Kurt > > I've just been googling around a bit, and it appears the MS store's apps for > Win 8 are pretty much desktop apps, not tablet apps. They're things like > Genealogy, Trip Designer, Quicken, etc. I'd judge they're pretty much > useless on a tablet. > > What I did find is the Apple iPad store, which has lots of pictures showing > their how their apps look on BOTH an iPad and an iPhone. Worth a look to see > what it's reasonable to expect. > > Your problem is that a Win 8 tablet is a brand new bastard product - a > complete PC OS with a brain-dead display. iOS and Android have only been out > about 3 years, but they have thousands of apps which work on the tablet > screen. Your second problem is that most of these are play apps, not work > apps. IMO, it's more than possible that doing work on a tablet isn't > particularly easy or fruitful, but I guess we'll have to find that out the > hard way. > > Another path to check out would be the various tablet developer packages, as > well as any forums for tablet developers. I've seen Tech Republic articles > on designing forms that auto-adjust for screen sizes; there must be more > somewhere. > > Here's a place to start: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/ > > Good luck to you (you'll need it!) > > Dan Covill > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
