Have to say I find Windows 8.1 to be little like the Mary Shelly novel “Frankenstein”
Microsoft honestly guys seems like if you want to make a touch/mobile OS while also allowing Desktop/Mouse/Keyboard OS, you need to TOGGLE!
If I detach the keyboard then I want a decent touch enabled OSK. The current OSK isn’t intuitive either, takes up half the screen real estate when looking at a web page and in word with the ribbon and navigation on, I’ve a tiny tiny line of actual document content, it needs to SCALE for the input/output mode.
I understand wanting to be able to go support ARM and other mobile processors but you need to build an OS that can SWITCH (there is a good marketing term Windows 9 Switch OS) E.g two versions of IE that pretty yuck as is switching between RT Metro style apps and traditional windows Apps.
On the store front perhaps you should make traditional apps available also. How about you buy Office “Mobile” professional Office “Desktop” Professional, same code base, just let’s you TOGGLE. But yeah get those traditional apps into the Store, then you will have the same number of apps as Apple, but better, in many regards, e.g. Full version of Adobe products like Photoshop or things like AutoCAD, try running those on an iPad. Go have a chat with game companies so you can resell all the desktop games all over again, perhaps for a reduced price. Maybe consider offering vendor convert their license keys to Windows Store Licence Keys….that should earn you guys some extra clams and be great for resellers. Who knows it might be possible for resellers to see who is licensed and for what, great marketing statistics and potentially and could also reduction software piracy, that should be worth something! Finally make sure you add a routines to the store to check if a device will run software before downloading so as to guarantee the hardware and OS will support it …..anyway there are some off the cusp ideas
TechnoBabel 