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[Kerodo]

Originally Posted by funkydude

It will end up like the minority report, glass touch screens everywhere with hybrid tablets/laptops becoming the device to own. The mouse will become a utility like the drawing tablet.

Quite possibly... but until then, I think they could have done a better job with the transition... namely, by giving people the option of how they want things in the current OS, until such time that touch is overwhelmingly predominant.

[funkydude]

Originally Posted by Kerodo

Quite possibly... but until then, I think they could have done a better job with the transition... namely, by giving people the option of how they want things in the current OS, until such time that touch is overwhelmingly predominant.

I agree. My fingers are still crossed for a hover-over taskbar when dragging your mouse to the bottom of a Metro app! Maybe one of the future "service patches".

[Mman79]

Originally Posted by funkydude

The PC was never designed with the mouse in mind, people laughed at MS when they tried to push the mouse.

Look how that turned out. Let's not make up nonsense by trying to define the PC as 1 singular input method.

People are too afraid/blind of the future unfortunately. It will end up like the minority report, glass touch screens everywhere with hybrid tablets/laptops becoming the device to own. The mouse will become a utility like the drawing tablet.

Or at least that's what Microsoft is betting on

Make up nonsense? While you're right that the mouse wasn't welcomed with wide open arms at first, the difference between a mouse and touch screens..on a PC is night and day. Yes, I'm aware that the option to not use Metro on a desktop is there and it isn't even suitable for a desktop. But again, the introduction of the mouse can hardly be compared to the introduction of touch interfaces to desktop screens that were never designed to be touched. It has nothing to do with being blind or afraid and everything to do with efficiency and 20 years of use.

I agree with you that eventually touch will be everywhere, in fact it mostly is outside of desktops that still have necessary functions. However, MS is going about it the wrong way, in my opinion. They're messing with an area they don't really need to in order to get in on the action that they've failed in and been left out of. Introducing Surface alone and making it a product that can truly compete with Apple and others is all they really need to do. As I said in a previous post, this seems more out of desperation to get in that market. MS is behind.. woefully.. behind in mobile and they're desperate to change that. No Windows 8 or MS hatred here, just an observation and opinion from a user.

[Osaban]

Windows, which has more than a billion users around the world, is getting a radical makeover, a rare move for a product with such vast reach. The new design is likely to cause some head-scratching for those who buy the latest machines when Windows 8 goes on sale this Friday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/22/te....html?hpw&_r=0

[encus]

Originally Posted by ronjor

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b...ilable-on.aspx

A couple days more! Thanks for the info, Ronjor.

[TOMxEU]

Well, I have just bought and installed Windows 8 Pro digital version from Microsoft Store for 30€ and it is a steal. It downloaded in about 6 minutes, than it offers setup from HDD, creating ISO and creating USB setup. Installation took about 20 minutes and it works just fine. Aside from metro, it is a fine specimen. I think, that I will keep it.

[funkydude]

Originally Posted by TOMxEU

Well, I have just bought and installed Windows 8 Pro digital version from Microsoft Store for 30€ and it is a steal. It downloaded in about 6 minutes, than it offers setup from HDD, creating ISO and creating USB setup. Installation took about 20 minutes and it works just fine. Aside from metro, it is a fine specimen. I think, that I will keep it.

You bought the Windows 8 upgrade and it allows you to create an ISO to perform a clean install?

[TOMxEU]

Yes, I was surprised myself and I even bought it while using Windows 8 and setting Upgrade advisor to Windows 7 Compatibility mode.

[Wild Hunter]

Originally Posted by funkydude

You bought the Windows 8 upgrade and it allows you to create an ISO to perform a clean install?

See: http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/b...for-39-99.aspx

...Of course, if you want to start fresh, you can choose to bring nothing along. Or if you prefer to format your hard drive as part of your upgrade experience, you can do so as long as you boot from media and then format your hard drive from within the setup experience for installing Windows 8, not prior to it...

[Kerodo]

Originally Posted by funkydude

You bought the Windows 8 upgrade and it allows you to create an ISO to perform a clean install?

Yeah, that's what I heard too, athough I'm not sure how they get the key to you, or if they do....

[TOMxEU]

The key will appear in the Windows Upgrade at the end and it also comes to an email, once paid to arvato distribution. Can be also checked here: https://www.mswos.com

By the way, it sounds, like you doubt that it is a real deal, no wonder at that price range. But the key is activated and the licence can be transfered to other PC, so no OEM.

[Kerodo]

Originally Posted by TOMxEU

The key will appear in the Windows Upgrade at the end and it also comes to an email, once paid to arvato distribution. Can be also checked here: https://www.mswos.com

By the way, it sounds, like you doubt that it is a real deal, no wonder at that price range. But the key is activated and the licence can be transfered to other PC, so no OEM.

Thanks for the info... No, I don't doubt anything, just wondered how they do it.