What's new on The Windows Blog...

Tweaking Win-8 continues, with promises to make it 'smoother' for us mouse and keyboard users who aren't exclusively tactile. I've suggested they make it so that we could choose to move an App from the Start Screen onto the Desktop in the form of an icon which wouldn't take up so much real estate, but still offer the functionality. We'll have to see if they do anything like that.
Microsoft is notoriously insensitive to user input, and that may explain why they are playing 'catch-up' with their competition these days. And they've yet to invent a truly 'bisexual' operating system that is all things to all users, and I doubt they can. We're too diverse in our preferences, and whatever appeals to the young and horny and desperate doesn't necessarily appeal to the boss who has to approve purchase of a thousand units for his employees, and worry about writing off the perfectly useful hardware they presently are using. This engineered obsolescence has its problems.