You already bought a tablet PC?

It works fine. I'm running FSX on Win8 Release Preview.

I must agree with stratetic on this one.
I'll jump over win8 and keep my 7.

Boikat wrote on Oct 28^th, 2012 at 8:52am:


Hope is the last thing to die.

Even though... when it dies, it dies screaming.

...and should M$ not learn, there's always Linux...

...scream, M$, scream...

You search a fast and efficient way to lose your customers and make a hash of your businesses so to hasten your bankruptcy? Ask with confidence the aid of M$. If they do not know a way to do it, it doesn't exist.

richardd43 wrote on Nov 5^th, 2012 at 1:22am:


That's the problem exactly. Now that we know we can use Win8 with the same interface as Win7, the question has been raised...

In WHAT way, WHERE and HOW is Win8 different than Win7, beside the new and mostly useless Metro tablet-like interface?


richardd43 wrote on Nov 5^th, 2012 at 1:22am:


I steadfastly REFUSE to learn to use a tablet interface on a mouse system.

The differences between the traditional interface of Win7 and the one under Win8 are easily compensated.


richardd43 wrote on Nov 5^th, 2012 at 1:22am:


That's the problem exactly.

Bass wrote on Nov 5^th, 2012 at 8:18am:


I don't believe Win8 is just like sVista or Millennium. They both were hastily end badly coded versions of Windows... actually Me was a last ditch attempt to save the 16bit Windows versions M$ made a memorable hash of, while sVista was and is a beta version of Win7 put on sale prematurely to make some $, €, £, ¥ or other currencies in a hurry.

Win8, at least for what we have seen up to now, seems to be a minor make-up of Win7.

Just add Metro.

In short, you have Win7? You don't STRICTLY need Win8. You want Metro because you are masochist or have a PC-based Tablet? Get Win8 or wait someone will make a Metro-looking, or any other tablet-usable framework to mount on Win7.

That's all folks.

If it's not broke, don't fix it!
My FS9 and FSX run perfectly happily on Windows 7 so why change?
Just my two penny worth.

Zaphod

ftldave wrote on Nov 7^th, 2012 at 3:32pm:


The problem is not so much the readiness to use another kind of interface. The problem is that Win8 is a wonderful solution for a problem that does not exist.

Or perhaps I should say: the REAL problem is that Win8 is the harbinger of the problem, not its solution.

Who among you has ever thought: "DAMN IT, why are they not making another kind of interface than this grubby, insensate, badly made, hellish mouse"?

You see the point?

It's not that the mouse is bad, it's just simply more fashionable to have tablets, this days, than other means like laptops or stationary computers. No matter that you must use a software keyboard that has no feel and restricts the screen size... which is good still for short text, but try and write an essay on it, I dare you... and I'm not even going to speculate the kind of hell you'll go through trying to use Photoshop or other image or even other kind of graphical processing software... and in fact docking stations with physical keyboards and even mouse are not unheard of for tablets, if still quite rare.

Fashion pushes part of the market. The market made for those whose vocabulary's most important words are "cool" and "look" most of the times, if not always, used together. Even in spite of ergonomics. Even in spite of common sense. Those for whom the LOOK is all that matters, and LOOKING COOL is paramount, you can be sure would like nothing better than having their normal, even mundane PC to LOOK COOL like a tablet.

Win8, AKA Win7M (M for Metro), is for them. Not so much for sensible people.

After all, it's hardly a secret that M$ is lately clumsily trying to prostitute itself set up itself as an Apple copycat. Just remember from whence it came the Flight debacle.

Nice, old, good times past when M$ had a personal pride and spat in the eye of Apple... a pride those who followed them were consequently proud to share... where are you gone?

I guess you can live without personal pride, if you are small and mercenary enough.