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>> Bad Apple - love you to bits - but you occasionally suffer from "I knowHa! Guilty as charged!
> this, I can do it, so it's not a problem." :)
For a concrete example, lots of people on this list have a serious hate
case on for Win8/8.1
completely disables Metro and makes it an entire non-issue. Yet *every
single damn person* capable of voicing an opinion on the matter keeps
perpetuating the same tired old nonsense.
reach out and tap the screen, or pinch/squeeze for zoom, etc. I did a
code review with with a SQL DBA the other day and with both of us sat in
front of one laptop we found ourselves naturally using the touchscreen a
lot more than I would have expected. Neither of us would use a
touchscreen normally, or for any kind of our normal work, but Metro with
it's big icons and touchscreen APIs actually kind of makes sense in
certain, very specific situations.
Unfortunately, having quite serious OCD about things like smeared
screens, until someone figures out how to protectively coat glass
against finger prints I will never use one on anything that isn't my
phone or a tablet, so Metro is still dead on arrival.
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