Watch out, Apple: Windows 8 could trump the iPad - Sep 2011 - 46 views
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Live is assumed and focused on letting an app's state roll across all devices a user has.
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David Corking on 10 Nov 11A pendulum swinging back towards mainframe computing, perhaps.
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Apple designed iOS for gesture-based input, and people took to it easily -- and developers had to think in the mind-set to even be able to deliver apps.
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old "finger as mouse" approach to touch was a bad idea.
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"Legacy" Win32s apps from Windows 7 and earlier won't get the Windows 8 Metro UI goodness unless they are at least partially revised; even then, they'll be limited. Users will find that touch, syncing, and interapplication sharing won't always work.
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(It's no accident that Excel was a Mac application first or that Windows Word shared almost nothing with DOS Word other than file format.) Microsoft's apparent strategy creates that risk for today's developers.
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Sloppy developers could thwart Microsoft's seeming reinvention of Windows from taking root. Or, as happened with Apple's iOS, developers could wholeheartedly adopt the Windows 8 model and deliver an amazing portfolio of apps that pulls in users and drags IT behind them.
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