Without the iPhone much of this would not be possible and yet there was much about the PC that was good. To a certain degree Microsoft seem to have forgotten that with their latest OS. If you doubt that try dragging and dropping from one modern app to another! Something so simple in the old world becomes difficult in the new. This full screen treatment may work on a tablet (and even there I think the jury may be out) but on a computer it feels cumbersome. Of course that may be because I have been using Windowing software for a long while. I do however feel that it is because someone missed the clue embedded in the operating systems name. Perhaps Windows 8.1 should be renamed Window.
I digress. I would love to know of anyone that uses a Windows 8.1 device solely in modern UI flavour. My sense is that everyone that uses windows does so using the desktop. Indeed the fact that a default to desktop option was introduced for 8.1 suggests that my observation is mirrored in fact. In 2004 I became a confirmed Microsoft tablet user by using pen only and rejecting the keyboard. In the same vein I have tried to operate in modern UI mode only and found I could not do it. I found it frustrating and long winded and definitely not conducive to efficient working practices. Modern UI is great for media consumption but not for use as a day to day workhorse. This is exactly what I have said about the iPad on numerous occasions.
My hope is that with new leadership at Microsoft the true super hero beneath the handsome but unsophisticated mask will again come to prominence. Shedding the Apple bonds and stepping once more to its place as the operating system of choice..
