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The Windows 7 UI will be the HP Slate's biggest weakness | |
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| Time: 13:47 EST/18:47 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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HP has released a few teaser details of its upcoming iPad, um, I mean Slate device. While the company is betting the farm on Adobe Flash and AIR support being enough to give it the edge over the iPad, I can already see the device’s biggest weakness - Windows 7. Or more specifically, the problems of taking a cursor-based desktop OS user interface (UI) and expecting the Windows paradigms, complete with little icons, small click areas, scrollbars and so on, to work well without a mouse. | ||
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| #1 By 17855 (205.167.180.132) at 3/9/2010 2:35:46 PM |
| What was HP thinking! My goodness a full blown OS on a computing device, that will never work! |
| #2 By 20505 (216.102.144.11) at 3/9/2010 6:01:52 PM |
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His point is that different devices require different interfaces to maximize the user experience. I believe he is right in this regard. Tablet PC was not as useful as it could have been simply because it was a portable PC clone. It really only worked as a convertible device. If iPad is going to be successful it will need new software. Apple is sly in this regard, they will largely let independent developers develop new device specific software. They will pay them nothing and some of them may well hit on truly useful slate type software. Remains to be seen IMHO. |
| #3 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 3/9/2010 8:24:40 PM |
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Exactly. The main focus of the article is the GUI and indeed Wm7 is not 100% finger friendly.
Granted I do not see myself interacting with my Tablet with only my fingers: for example I use Inkseine a lot and handwriting, at least for me, is still the fastest way to input. |
| #4 By 69681 (63.134.128.98) at 3/10/2010 8:43:24 AM |
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If Win7 detects a tablet or touch input device, it actually resizes certain elements to make them more touch-friendly. For example, the "Show Desktop/Aero Peek" on the Win7 taskbar is wider on a touch/pen-enabled PC. I'm not positive, but I think the icon grid spacing is also enlarged.
Regardless, Win7 is a far superior tablet/touch OS than Vista and XP combined. |
| #5 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 3/10/2010 3:31:57 PM |
| W7 touch support is absolutely better than XP and Vista; the entire "Tablet experience" in W7 is much better than with its predecessors. Said that even W7 is not an OS engineered from the ground up for "Touch". WM 6.3 gives you a by far better "Touch" experience than WM 6.5, still is a "retrofitted" OS; WP7, at least beased on what I have seen so far, should allow a complete and full "Touch" experience. |
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