

Just look at how much it has changed in just 3 months so far. Perhaps Microsoft plan to make tablets have the same option so manufacturers can drop the physical buttons?Īnyhow, let's reserve judgement until we see the final product shall we? There are several months to go before it's released. haven't had chance to have a good look at it yet.Īlso having the taskbar on the screen as it's shown above is akin to windows phones showing windows, back and search keys on screen. Sure the actual charms have been relegated to a hamburger button inside each app (not overly pleased at this, charms were handy when holding a tablet at the sides), but there's still the concept of a swipe in from the right that will reveal the notification/action centre, and I wouldn't be surprised if this ended up showing power state, time, etc. The concept of a "charms bar" hasn't gone entirely.

I hope they end up doing the latter, since I also don't like having a taskbar at all times in tablet mode. I'm afraid that since the removal of the charms bar, the only way to see the time/date and battery status is by displaying a taskbar at all times or by adding this info to the notification/action thing that you see when you swipe in from the right. It did indeed have a (limited) taskbar visible.

That was actually an 8.3" Thinkpad 8 tablet (I have one) that was shown during the event. Yes, address the complaints, but don't forget those who like the new direction as well! I don't want to be forced back to the Windows 95 way of doing things. I'm not hugely thrilled with the direction so far either - I like how 8.x works, both on tablets and stationary computers. We'll see where they're headed when the next build comes out sometime in the next week. I know people flipped their crap about Win 8 but it worked really well for Tablets and it seems Win 10 is going to stick portions of the desktop in plain sight even on tablets. In Win 10 is their going to be a way to have a Surface or 8 Inch X86 win tablet act like win 8.1 does? IE full screen apps no taskbar stuck at the bottom? So I was told continum is the answer? Well that seems to suck to, screen space is limited but yeaterday I'm seeing full screen apps but the Desktop Taskbar is still at the bottom taking up valueable screen space even in Tablet mode. The current Win 10 release is HORRIBLE for a tablet. Ok so I've been running Win 10 on my Surface for awhile now and honestly I totally hate it.
