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spursmaddave

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Might give this a try on my laptop as it's got a multi-touch screen...

 

Should work well with that :thumbs:

 

The gui is based on the new Xbox one that came out a few months back...

Which in itself is based on the phone GUI, they are trying to present one GUI for all Windows family products. Not sure how well a PC will work with touchscreen gestures, think I will stick to W7 unless they have significant performance increases for SSDs etc.

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Might give this a try on my laptop as it's got a multi-touch screen...

 

Should work well with that :thumbs:

 

The gui is based on the new Xbox one that came out a few months back...

Which in itself is based on the phone GUI, they are trying to present one GUI for all Windows family products. Not sure how well a PC will work with touchscreen gestures, think I will stick to W7 unless they have significant performance increases for SSDs etc.

 

Indeed, I was just curious.... so installed it on my laptop, it does let you view a 'normal' desktop but the settings are all over the place... keeps asking me to sign into my Windows Live account so I can visit the appstore.... no thanks :lol:

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IMO microsoft is never any good at playing catchup. They need to innovate and I think win 8 was pretty kneejerk and just to tie into their mobile/touch screen market with windows mobile.

 

Looks like too little too late IMO.

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