John Bartow
john at winhaven.net
Fri Jan 11 11:51:19 CST 2013
I haven't tried it on a phone yet but have on other touch screen devices. It's OK but the mail app is horrendously poor. Huge oversight considering almost everyone uses their devices for browsing, social networking and email. Windows 8 on a non-touch screen is not so good. Why didn't they leave the start menu option available? Shortsighted; another forced contrivance from people who apparently have no idea how much the general public resents change for no purpose. Good for me because I'm selling a lot of new Windows 7 PCs to businesses which don't want to be stuck with Windows 8 in the near future. I'm in the process of working out modifying everything in the desktop UI to make it more like Windows 7. Scripting it all and then installing said script for clients. Any help would be appreciated :-) John B -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov Shamil Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 4:02 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: [dba-Tech] FYI: "Microsoft may still win the tablet war" and other mobile market news directly related to MS technologies... Hi All - FYI: * Microsoft may still win the tablet war http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tablets/microsoft-may-still-win-the-tablet-war/2709?tag=nl.e101&s_cid=e101 * Microsoft Announces 60M Licenses For Windows 8 Sold, Showing Similar Sales Trajectory To Windows 7 http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/08/microsoft-announces-60m-licenses-for-windows-8-sold-showing-similar-sales-trajectory-to-windows-7 * Bright Spot For Nokia As Lumia And Other Q4 Mobile Sales “Exceeded Expectations”, With 4.4M Lumias Sold, But Q1 May Bring More Woe http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/10/a-bright-spot-for-nokia-as-lumia-and-other-mobile-sales-exceeded-expectations-in-q4/ * Nokia Launches WP8 Flagships In India: Lumia 920, 820 On Sale From Tomorrow; Lumia 620 Coming In Early February (Not January) http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/10/nokia-launches-wp8-flagships-in-india-lumia-920-820-on-sale-from-tomorrow-lumia-620-coming-in-early-february/ * * Nokia Confirms It’s Keeping An Open Mind About Using Android In Future. Message To Microsoft: Don’t Take Support For Granted? http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/08/nokia-confirms-its-keeping-an-open-mind-about-using-android-in-future-message-to-microsoft-dont-take-support-for-granted Thank you. -- Shamil _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com