* Posts by alexonthereg

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Windows 8.1: Here at last, but is it good enough?

alexonthereg

Even apple, who are pretty much the experts at both UI design and forcing through massive, often unpopular changes in their systems didn't try this. They changes from Mac OS X from classic, and from PPC to x86 with alot of hardships on the way yet even today apple keep two separate interfaces for their desktop operating systems and their phones.

Touch on the desktop works. It does, and it can work better. Kinect also can work. Metro does not.

Microsoft should have been less awkward about people plugging kinect into their PC, and more aggresive at getting actual touch screens into the market, subsidising manufacturers if necessary. With more hardware becomes more development, more little tools and applications to enhance, supplement or replace the still existing desktop environment. With more development and software choices comes more real world use amongst the nerd population.

This might have helped microsoft decide how best to integrate guesture and touch into the OS, rather than foist an array of underdeveloped and poorly designed touch features into the desktop and into the hands of hostile developers and users who've had their favorite tools and applications replaced will little or no notice or alternative.