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Five favorite Windows 8 preview apps

The last three are pointless on desktops or laptops. No camera, and the airline and stock apps aren't needed when a full-featured browser is available. Comparisons to Windows Phone don't help much; it's not like many people have experience with it as compared to more popular phone operating systems.

It doesn't merely *allow* you to import your portfolio, but it *requires* it. You can't add securities manually, rather it demands your username and password for your investment account. Call me paranoid, but I don't give up my banking login credentials to a third party without good reason, and this is no good reason.

Sorry, I know it's not yet ready for Prime Time but Windows 8 Metro and the App tiles are all just horribly fugly. Brutal on the eyes.

Just 'forced' to replace my HTC HD which had 'died'.
In Australia, best I could do in a W phone was the HTC HD&.

No Outlook sync..................c'mon Microsoft......get with it. I HATE my stuff being forced into the cloud vi your Live service. Looking elsewhere .......and my firm has 40 mobiles..........all will go smartphones before too long. Probably not a windows phone either