However, I like to shoot a few HE shells at some tanks while playing World of Tanks on the weekend in my down time. Ihave been looking to replace my trusty old non-touch screen Samsung laptop running Windows 8.1 with a new touch screen model. Windows 8 Bing Finance app running on Desktop Happily though :), this is going to be fixed in the next update where WinRT apps can now be run on the good old desktop.
As a heavy desktop user though, I want to open the application on the desktop in a window and not in the full screen touch friendly window. I like it because I can pin it to my start screen and get notifications on the tile for any new emails. That's not to say it doesn't have its problems, I like to use the Windows 8.1 mail application. (green tiles are the fastest to get to, red tiles are the slowest) Heat map of time to reach tiles in the Start screen from the Start button (green items are the fastest to get to, red items are the slowest) Heat map of time to reach items in the Start menu from the Start button I personally can't see the problem, it just downright statistically more efficient and quicker to open an application than the old cramped Windows7/Vista start menu and has lots of cool features like pausing file transfers and mounting ISO files which I use all the time. Windows 8 seems to have gotten a bad rap in recent times, mostly due to the full screen start screen.
You find yourself using it every now and then wherever appropriate.
Resizing an image with a two finger gesture sticks out as one good example. Having tried a laptop with one, there are some operations which are just more natural with your fingers. I do a bit of Windows 8 and Windows Phone development on the side, so a touch screen is handy for testing but you're probably asking, whats so good about a touch screen? Well this is a little difficult to quantify. Would you buy a sandwich without the filling? Would you buy a car without the radio? No? Then why are most Windows 8.1 laptops sold without touch screens?
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