Windows 8 or 7. Which would you choose?
Hi, all. My current Toshiba laptop is getting a little long in the tooth and runs WinXP3. I don't know much about the newer operating systems so I'd like to hear from any of you tech savvy folks about...
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JamesBr wrote:
I only go by what the domain admins are telling me they are dealing with. They agree that its more touch friendly then mouse/keyboard. That tells me tablet OS as I don't want to be touching my screens to do my work.
It's only "touch friendly" for the simplest of tasks such as tapping an icon to start a program. It's more difficult to use touch to accomplish anything slightly complex like cut & paste and multi-select. With a touch screen you need to swipe across the screen to scroll the Start screen left/right. I can scroll the Start screen with far less effort using the scroll wheel on my mouse. On the Lock screen, with touch, I need to swipe up with my finger whereas with a mouse I just need to click. To me, it's much easier to click a mouse button than to swipe up on the screen.
