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I have had a chance to play with the Windows 8 preview and so far I am impressed. The Metro part is really nice for tablets and is well suited to touch. The question arises though, should one write Metro style applications or desktop style applications ? Metro applications have many advantages, such as always full screen, multiplatform (x86 and
Read moreI was playing around with the 64 bit Windows 8 Preview build today and decided to check out Visual Basic as part of Visual Studio 11, which comes with the 64 bit build. What ever happened to coding ? It was like landing on a different planet ! I was a Basic programmer in another galaxy which had absolutely no
Read moreToday all the buzz online is that no one wants a Windows tablet PC anymore (ie. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/im-not-surprised-that-consumer-interest-in-windows-tablets-has-plummeted/16658 ) . The idea is that Windows 7 has failed on tablets because it is not touch oriented and Windows 8 is too far away. Now I don’t know how things will work out in the long run, since no one can foretell the
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