'You can, of course, use the desktop applications in the normal way with keyboard and mouse, but if youd like to utilise touch as well, Id recommend you increase the size of all items by 125 percent and increase the text size of such items as title bars, menus, and message boxes to at least 11pt. This not only separates the UI elements to make them easier to touch, but also increases the visibility of desktop text for those of us with older eyes.'
I've got no problem with customising a display to personal preferences, but Microsoft have really stuffed this one up.
I've heard a lot of people complaining W8 looks '90s', with its clean and simple lines. Reminds me of Windows 3.1 albeit with a few more colours, with a text-and icon based 'Command Explorer' in a grid - almost identical. It also has about the same level of usability as a virgin system using 3.1 as well - a notepad, calculator, very basic paint app and a simplistic display that was developed from the naturally-gridded character cell display that preceded it. (it wasnt a huge step to colour and select a word by putting a mouse cursor on it rather than type in a command from the keyboard...) and doesnt appear to have changed much.
I wont be using RT myself, but I can see why the millions of 'computer savvy' users will. Its very familiar if you've used early versions of Windows and dislike what happened after XP because its about as limited:
Where's the CD/DVD burner, FMV media player and basic WP that can read a Hypertext document or a PDF? Where is the programming interface that anything that calls itself a computer MUST HAVE to be called a computer and not an appliance?
I'm not kicking just Windows here, IOS and Android also suffer from the same problem of pretty-but-useless. I guess people really just dont need computing power at their fingertips, but as its availble they'll use it for entertainment...
Theres a whole bunch of stuff missing that i'd have to pay for or just do without, so I'm staying well clear of tablets until they have matured into true computers.
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CD burner? Who wants/needs a CD burner? I have boxes of unused CDs that I bought in quantity. I haven't burned a CD, or a DVD for that matter, in YEARS. Flash media viewer? Again, who the he11 needs one? I believe RT has "basic WP" capability including handling .pdf, and any browser can read hypertext. Nothing needs a "programming interface" to be considered a computer, the vast majority of embedded systems are real computers with no user available programming interface. You mean, you have no interest in a computer you don't have a programming interface for. You have missed the point of tablets too. Obviously they aren't going to perform like desktops, or even laptops. I've had multiple computers for years. I used have a desktop system for power stuff and several laptops for he convenience. Now I have laptops for power AND laptops for convenience, PLUS a couple of tablets for those times when I want/need to go really lightweight. I use a tablet in situations when I would have done without a computer before, and believe me, that is POWER.
one that doesn't have everything and includes a EULA term that says it may NOT be used for commercial purposes or in a commercial way or used for a charitable organisation. Section 6 applies here.
And don't forget that the Surface RT has a nice piece of spyware that reports back to MS each month and can NOT be turned off. That's all in the MS EULA on the Surface RT; section 5 paragraphs d, k, and m
And don't forget that the Surface RT has a nice piece of spyware that reports back to MS each month and can NOT be turned off. That's all in the MS EULA on the Surface RT; section 5 paragraphs d, k, and m
Chromebooks, iPads, most "smartphones". It is not confined to just
Microsoft now. The sad part is that many users simply don't find that
offensive now, unlike the bruhaha that was raised when Intel had the
little "ET phone home" problem some years back. We're tracked, data
mined, cataloged, characterized and categorized so that we are then
targeted with what someone somewhere thinks is a relavant advertisement.
I've yet to find a good enough reason to justify a tablet device purchase
for my uses, but the category is an interesting one!
Microsoft now. The sad part is that many users simply don't find that
offensive now, unlike the bruhaha that was raised when Intel had the
little "ET phone home" problem some years back. We're tracked, data
mined, cataloged, characterized and categorized so that we are then
targeted with what someone somewhere thinks is a relavant advertisement.
I've yet to find a good enough reason to justify a tablet device purchase
for my uses, but the category is an interesting one!
the RT can NOT be set up NOT to report back.
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