It's like Microsoft has completely forgotten how it holds a dominant market position in business segments, where people want their computers for the purposes of getting shit done, and not "looking pretty" when you make the windows go up or down.Formica Archonis said:
Also, anyone who thinks that designing a desktop OS around an assumed default control system of a touchscreen isn't stupid is - and this is cold hard fact here - a moron. Touchscreens are a terrible interface in almost all scenarios apart from where they're used now - with phones and tablets, you're holding something small and can be sitting down, with kiosks in public places you're standing up and therefore not holding your arms straight out (and generally not using them for very long). As a desktop option though?! There's a reason touchscreen monitors aren't very popular, and that's because the human arm isn't designed to be held straight out in front of your body for extended periods of time - it's profoundly uncomfortable, and far and away less efficient than if you simply had a keyboard and mouse. Touchscreens are the things you give your users when they can't have a full keyboard and mouse for whatever reason, not a technology that can replace them (even the ultra expensive/fancy Microsoft Surface device, while cool, still only makes sense as a sort of media kiosk and not as a desktop, because it has no keyboard) - it's sort of worrying that Microsoft doesn't seem to grasp that.
