Touch-a Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me!
Our apologies to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but Windows 8 just begs to be touched, prodded, and poked. The Start screen and the Windows 8–style interface only truly make sense the first time you interact with Windows 8 as it was meant to be used: on a tablet or on a desktop computer with a multitouch monitor. Scrolling, selecting, and manipulating objects on the screen feels completely natural and intuitive, even pleasurable.
This isn’t to say that Windows 8 is useless without a touch screen. You can definitely use Windows 8 with just a keyboard and mouse. In fact, if you’re a good typist, you may actually prefer to keep your fingers on the keyboard most of the time. The trick here is that it’s not immediately ...
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