[AccessD] Dvorak's rant on Windows 8

Hans-Christian Andersen hans.andersen at phulse.com
Fri Jun 8 14:48:56 CDT 2012



That is an attractive feature. I've been enjoying that in iTunes for a number of years and now iCloud.

However, I was speaking about the interface and the underlying OS.

Hans 


On 2012-06-08, at 12:32 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil wrote:

> Hi Hans --
> 
> AFAIU the most attractive feature is that a Win8 tablet will be in synch  with Win7/8 desktop/laptop/phone/... via SkyDrive/Office365/Windows Azure... - read comment from mtcoder, June 8, 2012 at 1:41 pm...
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> -- Shamil
> 
> Fri, 8 Jun 2012 11:46:55 -0700 от Hans-Christian Andersen <hans.andersen at phulse.com>:
>> 
>> "... Microsoft was incapable of making the radical changes to Windows that would make it work until it was too late."
>> 
>> I don't understand why every assumes that porting Windows to a tablet is a good idea (even if it has a tablet UI on top of it - aka Metro). iOS is not a port of OS X and Android is not a port of desktop Linux.
>> 
>> Hans
>> 
>> 
>> On 2012-06-08, at 11:33 AM, Salakhetdinov Shamil wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Jim --
>>> 
>>> Yes, and I should have noted that comments to it are also interesting to read....
>>> 
>>> Thank you.
>>> 
>>> -- Shamil
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Fri, 8 Jun 2012 11:23:56 -0700 от "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>:
>>>> A good article.
>>>> 
>>>> Jim
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>>>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov
>>>> Shamil
>>>> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 10:58 AM
>>>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>>>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Dvorak's rant on Windows 8
>>>> 
>>>> Hi All --
>>>> 
>>>> Here is an interesting blog posting:
>>>> 
>>>> "Microsoft, Windows 8, and the Innovator's Dilemma (or, why you hate Windows
>>>> 8)"
>>>> http://www.itwriting.com/blog/5875-microsoft-windows-8-and-the-innovators-di
>>>> lemma-or-why-you-hate-windows-8.html
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you.
>>>> 
>>>> -- Shamil
>>>> 
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