[AccessD] Whilst on Windows 8

Hi folks,

I found these on the weekend and had a read.  It is rather long, but I found it was well worth a read - however you will need more than a spare 5 minutes though.

<http://www.mobileopportunity.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/fear-and-loathing-and-windows-8.html>

The following quote (taken from the link above) really raises my concerns and fears about this whole iPad tablet craze..

"People, not files, are the center of activity.  There has been a marked change in the kinds of activities people spend time doing on the PC. In balance to "traditional" PC activities such as writing and creating, people are increasingly reading and socializing, keeping up with people and their pictures and their thoughts, and communicating with them in short, frequent bursts. Life online is moving faster and faster, and people are progressively using their PCs to keep up with and participate in that. And much of this activity and excitement is happening inside the web browser, in experiences built using HTML and other web technologies."

Let me <<the author, not Darryl>> translate that for you: "We're optimizing Windows for using Facebook and YouTube at the expense of performing productivity tasks."

Yeah, that maybe great for web surfing and Joe and Joette Bogan on the daily train commute, but if you actually want to do the sort of productive work that we (and most of the corporate world does) then I think MS are out of their heads.  They seem to be so desperate and focussed on getting a foothold in Mobile (and tablet) that they are risking killing the golden goose (namely the whole corporate productivity 'Office' market).

File management, or the lack of it, also freaks me out.  Actually after reading the way the iPad handles file management (which to me seems highly inefficient) it has really put me off the idea of one for anything but media consumption.  W8 doesn't seem to be much better, but I guess it is early days still.

<http://windowssecrets.com/newsletter/how-to-transfer-files-from-windows-to-the-ipad/?u=darklydrawl@yahoo.com.au&r=16913-15810>

Anyway... I found both of these interesting.

You may find some value too.

Cheers
Darryl