On 11/8/2013 6:53 AM, Keith Nuttle wrote:
On 11/8/2013 6:55 AM, BillW50 wrote:
On 11/7/2013 8:07 PM, R. C. White wrote:
Hi, Keith.

Remember that this Metro/Modern interface was designed with a
touchscreen in mind...

I have heard this since I started running Windows 8 back in early 2012.
I even have been buying lots of Windows tablets since then too. And
oddly enough, even on my Windows 8 tablets, I generally prefer pen
enabled instead of touch.

And on some machines I can choose pen, touch, or both active at the same
time. And I generally run them in pen only mode. Touch does have some
pretty nifty things like scrolling, zoom, and sliding items around. Yes
I like this.

But another thing that touch adds that I don't like is anything acts as
a touch. Your palm on the screen, your other hand holding the tablet,
etc. So I don't view touch as being so hot of an interface myself.

And even if I have touch enabled on my tablets and then dock them
(enabling my keyboard and mouse)... I still don't have a craving to
reach for the screen to do something (even on the Metro interface). As
the keyboard and mouse works alone very well indeed.

If those who rather use touch and don't have a touch screen machine,
might be interested in something like the Logitech K400r. As it has
special Windows 8 hotkeys and the touchpad supports touch feature
controls without a touch screen. I actually like this better than a real
touch screen anyway. As you have the best of both worlds. ;-)

Dragging a program to the bottom of the screen will never replace
clicking an X, but thats microsoft.

Actually many touch screen OS work like this. From Androids, WebOS, Palm
(running TealOS), etc. So MS is only adapting the way the rest of the
world does it.

Is there anyway to close a program that show up as open when you are
shutting down the computer.

I like Win-Tab myself. But there are many ways to do the same thing.

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v12.0.1
Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP2