Interviewed by CNN on 10/11/2012 11:27, Desiree told the world: > Now I am confused. I thought Win 8 was Metro or Desktop and when on Desktop > you keep getting flipped into Metro when you don't want that. So, you have > to do all sorts of third party fixes and tweaks to keep from being flipped > to Metro which a desktop user wants to avoid completely, right? The real > difference is what sort of monitor you have. I have no intention of buying a > 24 Dell Ultrsharp that is touch screen! YUCK! You need Metro for > touch...what else would you need it for? So, hardware that has a touch > screen, some laptops and tablets and ultrabooks would require Metro > ...everything else would be Desktop side. Right? > > Is there is special Tablet version of Win 8?
The "tablet" version (more accurately called the "ARM CPU" version) is called Windows RT. It is *only* Metro, and does not not support desktop applications at all. I have tested Windows 8 Pro x64 in a brand-new Dell laptop (one which came with Windows 7 and does not have a touchscreen, by the way); generally speaking, the whole experience of using it for regular Windows desktop stuff has been disappointing; the whole switch-back-to-Metro-to-start-a-new-app is annoying. I didn't figure out yet a convenient way to create desktop icons for applications, which would help a lot -- it is possible to do it the "hard way", but I didn't find something equivalent to right-mouse-drag-from-the-Start-Menu. But I had no problems running old apps on it; I even managed to install MS Money 99 -- yes, a *fourteen-year-old* app written for *Windows 98*. Basically, it happily accepted any application that Windows 7 could run. System utilities are a different matter, of course. But I expect Seamonkey will run fine in Windows 8 desktop. The Windows 8 specific bugs somebody listed, from what I saw, are mostly related to setting up convenient shortcuts and defining SM as a default application and shouldn't keep it from working correctly. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my cyborg implant. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.13.2 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
