Re: Windows 8: how quickly will it be adopted?

But will the very young and the very old like Metro just as much?  That is
the open question.

My colleagues and I were using touch on 14 inch-ish Windows NT 10 laptops a
decade ago and loving that!  So I do not think that most developers are
even going to care whether something is optimized for touch or not.  They
are thrilled when something is touch enabled, period, and they'll just
touch more carefully if need be.  In fact, they'll probably be annoyed at
the wasted space in touch optimized apps.  If the screen is small enough to
make that important, then you aren't working anyway, and your play life
probably is not so great either.

So I am definitely not the person to ask what consumers will like.

In all seriousness, here is why enterprises might not update to Win8.  It
is too much fun.  All your Metro apps are just a Win+Tab away.  I'm
supposed to be at the beach right now...

Mike