[AccessD] Svar: What to do? (was: Just Another Old Boys Club)

Hi Rusty (and Arthur)

My wife Rita has ordered one. She loves her Windows Phone 7½. She's intelligent but absolutely not a gadget-type, thus she is on par with the no-nonsense Metro interface. 

For some time she has talked about obtaining a pad type machine for those situations where a normal laptop is too clumsy. When I showed her the pictures of the Surface models including the neat keyboard (like me, she does 10-finger typing very fast) and the well-known Metro tiles, she was sold instantly.

And Access will run on this. You flip between the Metro interface and a Windows 7 style Desktop with one keystroke, the Windows key.

/gustav


>>> rusty.hammond at cpiqpc.com 12-07-12 16:21 >>>
Anyone looking forward to the upcoming new Microsoft Surface tablet that
will run Windows 8 thus the ability to run Access on a tablet?

Rusty


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Hi Darryl

The great thing with Windows 8 is that you have both worlds: The desktop
which business and "the old boys" will continue to use for years, and
the Metro interface which is superior to other "pad" interfaces. And -
when you need it - you can switch between with a single
keystroke/mouseclick.

/gustav


>>> darryl at whittleconsulting.com.au 12-07-12 1:18 >>>
Agreed.  I get a bit puzzled myself - there are two markets for sure.
The consumer /domestic market where most folks want something 'that just
works', don't care less about looking under the hood and really only use
their devices for consuming media, services or information.  For these
people the iPad / Windows 8 solution should be magic.  However for
Business or those who develop or produce stuff off their systems this
obsession with full sized apps, touch screens and swiping around to make
things move really does seem a good solution....