On 2015-11-27 8:27 PM, BOB KLAHN -> ALAN ZISMAN wrote:   
      
    BK>   ...   
      
    AZ>> Win 8 was the version that changed everything.... Win 10 is   
    AZ>> an attempt by Microsoft to   
    AZ>> recognize that Win 8 changed to many things too fast for a   
    AZ>> user base that will take many years to transition to   
    AZ>> touch-screen systems, while maintaining a sense that the   
    AZ>> touch-screen user interface is the direction they want to   
    AZ>> go in the long run.   
      
    BK>   The direction MicroSoft want's to go, or the users? I suspect   
    BK>   MS. They want to make the decisions and we have to live with it.   
      
    BK>   In Business that can get very expensive.   
      
   'They want to go' in the quoted passage is referring to Microsoft.   
      
   It has been the case since the beginning of person computing - Microsoft has   
   made decisions and users - especially businesses - have dragged their feed   
   about upgrading.   
      
   If you were around in the late 1980s/early 1990s, Microsoft dragged its user   
   base into the graphical user interface era, at a time when users - business   
   users especially - had invested time and money into learning specialized   
   keyboard commands for Lotus 1-2-3 and Wordperfect.   
      
   (Remember keyboard number-row overlays with keyboard commands?)   
      
   It took at least a decade for that transition. Microsoft has shown it's able   
   to plan for the long-term.   
      
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