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  1. Schatten

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    Schatten, Sep 13, 2011
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    TexasF355F1 Seven Time F1 World Champ Silver Subscribed

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    Windows 8?
     
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  3. Schatten

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    Yes. You can see the video presentations on that site. Or you can see similar videos on apple.com from a few years ago.

    It might be known as Vista 2.0, or it could be something cool.

    One thing is for sure, it will be a tech support nightmare and that keeps developers and supporters employed!
     
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    I'm still waiting for a thumb based kwerty keyboard for tablet's...

    Anybody else remember the Sony Glass Tile windowing system? Now that was neato!

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQov4chYcKI[/ame]

    Or how about the Sony Surface?
    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbIl5c3BMWc&feature=related[/ame]
     
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  5. Schatten

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    It makes me wonder why The Bat Keyboard never took off. I can see it would be very useful in many industries. It's certainly been around for a long time.

    http://www.infogrip.com/product_view.asp?RecordNumber=12
     
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    I have the dev version installed on one of my laptops.

    Its nice but definitely more of a touch interface than a mouse & keyboard one.

    It took me an hours or so to learn how to navigate the menus with my mouse but one I did I was flying.

    Overall it is very responsive and has a nice look. I'm looking into an acer windows tablet to test it on the way it feels like it should work.
     
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    FITALY keybarod is the way to go. Especially for cellphones. I wish it was standard.
     
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    MS spent tens upon tens of millions of dollars testing their Win95 UI in front of many testers and spent quite a few years working out the kinks before finalizing it.

    For W8, MS spent $8.94 on some guy on the internet and called it good after he said, "cool, dude."

    I know the thing isn't in beta yet, but good god, that UI is just awful.
     
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