Re: desktop enviornment
By: KF5QEO to Hustler on Mon Sep 09 2013 07:51 am
> Re: desktop enviornment
> By: Hustler to Nightfox on Wed Sep 04 2013 23:36:12
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> > I'm not getting this whole windows 8 thing. If it was built for a
> > touchscreen why would you want it on a desktop? I also didn't like to giv
> It was actually built for the Windows Phone, part of Microsoft's belief
> that if every device / appliance runs windows, and they get you to use
> windows live for everything, then you can use your apps and files any
> where.
I have always assumed that the obvious plan is to have one compute
device. It may be phone, or it may be a tablet, but either way, it will
be portable. The one device would be usable all by itself, and it can be
controlled by our other interface devices.
So lets say that the tablet is our compute device, and you want to run
an app on your phone. The phone will simply display the interface, but
the tablet will do all of the processing. The same concept will work
with your smart-watch, smart-eyeglass, or the keyboard-mouse-monitor
terminal on your desk.
If my vision of the future is correct, then Microsoft and Windows 8 are
in a good position to own all of the markets because they have already
created an environment where tablet/phone style apps live in harmony
with desktop apps, and the metaphor can extend to whatever interface
device comes down the line.
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