On 10/18/14 7:23 AM, philo wrote:
On 10/18/2014 08:12 AM, Caver1 wrote:
On 10/18/2014 07:42 AM, Neil Gould wrote:
philo wrote:
On 10/17/2014 05:51 PM, Neil wrote:
I noticed that there are a number of new tablets from 7-10" starting
below $100US. Looks like the Metro UI gamble may start to make some
money for MS?




Even though I do not care for the Metro interface on a PC.
A friend of mine did pick up a Win8 tablet and it seems to be pretty
nice.


My biggest complaint with Win8 is simply that I thought it should have
defaulted to Metro on a touch screen device...and Classic on a
non-touch screen device.

I take it that you didn't install Win8.1? I had to go through a good
bit of
re-configuring to get my notebook to boot to Metro again after that
installation.


The 8.1 installs that I have seen default to the Metro side not the
desktop.




That's correct and exactly the reason I think Microsoft got it wrong.

Too many people just knows computers by rote and to even figure out how
to switch from Metro to Classic is beyond their capability.

I upgraded to 8.1 from 8.0, and it defaulted to the desktop, not Metro.
I think I read somewhere that 8.1 checks to see if you have a touch
screen. If so, it defaults to Metro. If not, it defaults to the desktop.


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