The future of Tablet

Today I went to Microsoft's Reading office for a technology update part of which was about Windows 8.  Sadly the 10 year old that they surfaced to talk about Windows 8 had no reasoning ability and little patience for anyone that did not see it as the best thing ever......

This really worried me, it smacks of the old "it must be good because it is Microsoft" attitude.  In fact they put up a slide that showed there were 500 million PCs out there running Windows 7, 250 million running Android of some form and 130 million running IOS.  The conclusion from this is that Windows would have to be a success because there would be more people writing applications because it is such a big platform.  I'm not sure of this logic.  I was also interested to note that he kept referring to windows programs that run on the desktop as legacy programs, implying that they expect them to go away.  Again I am not sure the Metro interface provides the kind of functionality that supports a workhorse as yet.

What I also saw was the thing I had problems with.  He was holding the tablet in a strange way so that he could write with the pen, because otherwise it goes haywire when your palm hits the screen.  This indicates to me they have not yet solved this problem and that this will make use of a pen difficult.  

On the plus side they finally have proper drivers for my tablet so I think it may be worth giving it another try. I will wait a little while though as I believe there will be a CTP version delivered in June (internet rumour not anything they said today).  I keep my fingers crossed that this works out, but I still have some doubts and nothing the Microsoft fanboy did today helped.