"Touch screen devices are the future like it or not."
I certainly hope not, at least, not for desktops. If so, RSIs are the future... I'm speaking from experience. We use WinXP on touch-screen devices in post-op recovery... a third of our nursing staff have come down with RSIs (sick leave, cost of replacement staff, etc). And the reduced productivity of trying to _make_ _do_ with these screens is horrendous. Typing on a tablet's virtual keyboard is awkward and slow, which is why people buy those bluetooth keyboards for them... typing on these miserable screens is a *massive* pain. Not to mention that the screen sensitivity reduces over time -- the machines in our high-volume recovery bays are noticeably less responsive than the ones that don't see as many patients.