Buying the Touch Mouse may be an insane opportunity but in February 29th, they announced that the Touch Mouse devices to be updated for Windows 8. The Device Center for mice is the upcoming successor to Intellipoint that can allow such interactivity between the Touch Mouse devices and Windows 8. Remapping the mouse buttons or assigning keys on the keyboard to your favorite file or webpage is easier than ever in the Device Center beta for Windows 8 CP. Who knows if you can use this for the currently active operating systems as well besides Windows 8?
So here comes the updated article regarding Windows 8 CP. It is designed to work on a wide range of devices, from tablets, to laptops, to desktops and all-in-ones. This is calling Windows 8 as a reimagined Windows operating system. Few things to note, computers that follow the system requirements of running Windows Vista and 7 can run the upcoming Windows operating system that is still under beta phase and when it comes to beta phase, there are still bugs going on. However, the new features between desktop and tablet editions are different in behavior as I realized.
The Start screen is the reimagined part of Windows experience. Actually, it is from Windows Phone 7 experience you’re going to imagine on Windows 8. Just like other smartphone devices where you can launch things, you can launch sub-things that launch their respective apps such as Friends section that uses People app, websites that can be opened to Internet Explorer, etc. Unlike the competitors, there are real-time updates on the things you can tap on. Like other smartphone devices, the start screen can be customized to suit your needs.
There will also be cloud technology to store your stuff but unfortunately, I don’t think there’s a way to automatically synchronize your local data to Skydrive just like you can do to Dropbox where you can specify on where do you want to synchronize your Dropbox data on your hard disk. When you Dropbox data is stored on your hard disk and you store additional data there, it’s auto-synchronization time. Who knows if SkyDrive on Windows 8 will be like using Gladinet Cloud Desktop to do this kind of solution? Of course, you will need your respective online accounts and everyone knows that we all have our social networking accounts. We can see our stuffs posted to social networking sites as well from certain Windows 8 apps.
Certain Android tablet devices come with the laptop keyboard with its own touchpad and I guess that the attachment may be the same for Windows 8 but what about drawing graphics by then, do you use the stylus for that? Hopefully, there will be USB support for Windows 8 tablets as well that can be useful for gaming or perhaps USB keyboard.
The desktop edition may be troublesome when it comes to bringing Charm bar but that’s the fact that the scrollbars are there. You’re supposed to move to the corner of the right side or press Windows + C key. Where’s the way to share webpages you’re in to social networking sites from the Charm Bar?
Devices on the other hand, well, you can connect your computer to other devices in which there’s not much to say.
The Charm bar containing Settings may be a proper idea just like using Android but the Settings charm is almost like a combination of two. More settings can be found at PC Settings.
The way you switch apps may be the pain in my ass when it comes to going all the way to the top-left corner to do so. The switching features are there but you have to move to the top-left corner anyway. But if you move down from top-left corner, you can see the vertical taskbar with the Start screen button at the bottom left.
For IE10 Metro edition, there’s still no way I can move the freaking tabs and this is where the real disadvantage starts. Also, it uses HTML5 to get around the problem for watching YouTube videos for example. There will be no Flash support for this metro app but I guess it’s like watching YouTube videos the other way through the app on the smartphones. Will things be safer that way?
In case you have very serious computer problems, at the last resort, you can choose to refresh your PC which causes the operating system to do the fresh installation without losing your personal files or settings or apps you’ve got from the Windows Store. The Windows Update is still the regular Windows-like behavior so it’s nothing that much other than updating the smaller parts of the operating system to fix the vulnerabilities.
Lastly, the default anti-malware protection tool is there but it uses the Security Essentials engine to do the better protection. Also, the desktop is there but it is not supposed to be on the tablet editions. For desktop users, the desktop is there like you can do whatever you want but the Start button is gone and you have to find the other way to access the Start screen and especially the desktop apps.
So the beta phase may be okay or perhaps average for both desktop and tablet users but who knows if this is acceptable or not?
