Re: Windows 8 experience

Yeah, definitely a different RDP. :) I use RDP to remote from my laptop to my desktop PC where I've generally kept my main productivity apps.

And in a sideways manner you hit on something key. So far it really feels like W8 is designed for a home/consumer/"social" PC user more than a hardcore business person. The live tiles are great for things like weather & news updates. They could also be great for systems monitoring (feeding QSYSOPR to one) but in my limited experience so far it doesn't really do much for office productivity apps beyond email & calendar.

A W8-optimized Office could change that. For instance, W8-Word enhanced to support page/chapter flipping via swiping like tablet ereaders do.

Funny, though, in a slight nod to touch enablement the Ribbon interface in Office now fits the OS UI context much better.


On , Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2012-11-02, at 4:36 PM, pctech-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> There is a free RDP client in the W8 app store.

Thanks - but I don't think we are talking about the same thing. My RDP = Rational Developer for Power

I'd be doing a clean install and even if there were a touch capable screen (I use a Mac) RDP itself wouldn't drive well with touch. It is keyboard or mouse driven. Think MS Word or Excel - not facebook or whatever.

Jon Paris

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