@ace - what ms productivity product is written as a craplet (metro app?)
office?
server 2012?
exchange server?
o! i know! visual studio!
my point is that the place where work gets done in win 8 is obscured by the metro toys (apps, craplets) & that no (zero) ms productivity products are written to it. that makes it (metro) useless in a business environment.
however, any young person joining a company today grew up with ms windows and is intimately familiar with it.
metro is different from what they grew up on. easy to learn? no joke. push the button. but even so, it remains useless.
Visual studio as a Windows 8 app? :confused2: It doesn't exist.
I use various Task management apps on a daily basis on my Surface. Much easier than my iPhone to use... I also use financial apps, key/password holders, I can write quick notes to sync to skydrive in the cloud, and lots more.
my point is that the place where work gets done in win 8 is obscured by the metro toys (apps, craplets) & that no (zero) ms productivity products are written to it. that makes it (metro) useless in a business environment.
Not really, and for it to be useful to a business environment they don't have to be MS productivity "products" though. That business could write their own app to be used by their employees if they truly wanted. I think the convenience and portability of an RT device too, for using the apps, would be much more cost effective than a full blown laptop, and because of the features embedded in a Surface, it would be great for many other things too.
however, any young person joining a company today grew up with ms windows and is intimately familiar with it.
metro is different from what they grew up on. easy to learn? no joke. push the button. but even so, it remains useless.
Yes, I understand you have called it useless... But you have not yet provided any supporting evidence as to why exactly it is "useless". Even if you go to school and learn something, you'll be forced to change after you are out of school by your employers to learn new things anyways. That's just the way technology is.
If it is easy to learn, how is that not a point in itself for why it is
not useless? It would be cost effective for people to be using an easy to use OS.
You can continue to call the apps toys, junk, useless, etc... But until you provide any valid reasons you don't have good grounds for a debate lol.
We're all adults here though :smile9:, I probably won't change my opinion for now because of my experiences with Windows 8, and you probably won't change yours, and that's entirely fine! No problem with that at all. I am open to anything "bad" that there is about Windows 8 that people find though. I like challenging that to see if something can make whatever it is better, or hearing it out at least. People who enjoy Aero for example, if it weren't for some people out there already, we would have been stuck with the plane jane "flat" and opaque look. Because people still like aero though, developers have come out with modifications to make it possible.
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