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Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design On 1/8/13 12:27 PM, "Peter Haworth" <p...@lcsql.com> wrote: >Bob, >Is your judgement because you have sat down with a Windows 8 touch screen >computer for an hour? I'm curious because I'm very interested in buying a >small Window 8 laptop (11" screen). I've only played on it for perhaps 10 >minutes in the store but I didn't really notice any problems using the >touchscreen side of things. I found myself much preferring to touch the >screen than use the mousepad. Then again, I was mostly in a web browser >not a real desktop app. > >Pete >lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> > > >On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Robert Sneidar <slylab...@me.com> wrote: > >> I'm going to venture an educated guess. From all I have heard, Win8 is >> really optimized for touch interfaces. While you CAN use it on a desktop >> system, there do not seem to be any compelling reasons for doing so, >>over >> Win7. Steve Jobs had it right. Use a touch based OS on a desktop for >>just >> an hour, and you will see why point and click is the way to go on these >> systems. >> >> Desktop apps that need lots of screen real estate or need a lot of >> processing power flourish on large monitor point and click systems, but >> flounder on touch interfaces. Not all apps need the screen real estate >>or >> use a lot of resources. These do well on tablet touch systems. I do not >> think tablet/touch OSes are replacing desktop systems. I think that the >> process is more like a re-calibration of the equilibrium between what >>most >> people have needed all along, a simple tablet touch OS, and professional >> systems that need the power and screen real estate to function well. >> >> Just my 2ยข >> >> Bob >> >> >> On Jan 8, 2013, at 7:38 AM, Mark Stuart wrote: >> >> > Wow! >> > I guess no one is using Windows 8. >> > >> > >> > >> > ----- >> > Regards, >> > Mark Stuart >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >_______________________________________________ >use-livecode mailing list >use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >subscription preferences: >http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode