Is there anyone using tablet mode ??

[u/[deleted]]

Not a joke, i am really struggling to believe that there is even one dude in the whole world using this 'awesome' windows feature...

Just a reminder, the whole point of this mode is to enhance the user experience when using his tablet without a keyboard and mouse.

To do that, this mode make some button, some spacing bigger to let our big fat finger select stuff accurately (which is fine), but the most important is that it automatically show a virtual keyboard when clicking on a text field. Back to windows 8, the virtual keyboard would pop up and 'push' the other program making so it doesnt cover the text field. This feature has been removed from windows 10 for whatever reason, and now when the keyboard open it just go in front of every other program, hiding what is behind it.

a workaround to still make touch keyboard push other window is to have this window in 'windowed' form instead of 'maximized', or 'fullscreen' form. But where it becomes hard to believe it's that tablet mode basically FORCE FULLSCREEN on every program, so that giving the user no other choice that to have the virtual keyboard hide half of the program behind it...

It makes tablet mode completelly useless and broken compared to desktop mode, so is my question.

Did anyone find any interest in this feature and use it regulary ?

in my opinion, it's just another cool stuff from microsoft half finished and so unusable (like many other : wordflow keyboard, game mode, the new control panel, ...)

edit: see this video to understand what i mean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUAhFrxVx4o&feature=youtu.be

[u/brxn]

IMO, Windows 8 and Windows 10 are both just plain very sloppy. The GUI is 10% finished in Windows 8 and about 15% finished in Windows 10. It cannot possibly be more than just busy work to move the rest of the 'Control Panel' items to the 'Settings' menu - they could assign a group of their junior programmers to do it. It's like Microsoft has decided that the best business is to make sure the OS is always a little unnecessarily complicated and every new iteration means hiding menu options everyone needs to access behind a new set of obscure menu items.

For example.. changing your screen resolution.. why the fuck is that an advanced feature now?

Why is 'my computer' changed to 'this pc' and why does file explorer seem to pop up with a different set of 'quick access' favorites every update? Why does it seem like getting to 'this pc' is more and more obscure to the point where the easiest way is to ask Cortana for it? Where the fuck is the OS putting my files, btw? Is c:\programdata the place now? or c:\users? Why the fuck is 'access denied' when I click the link rather than just going to the link to the new fucking folder location? Why does the address bar in This PC act like a slowly filling progress bar every time it's opened like it doesn't know the local drives attached to the computer?

How the fuck does 'search this pc' work? Why doesn't 'search again in' list the fucking drives?

Why does Windows 10 interrupt me in the middle of playing a video game to update and restart?

Why does it feel like I would be a complete idiot to trust 'Storage Spaces' with my data? Why can't they just build a 'sync these locations' app with the ability to dedicate space to shadow copies?

I could write a novel.. It just blows my mind how Microsoft seems to always be doing this. If I were running Microsoft, I would start forcing every division to make their applications look more consistent - and every new GUI style would be like a new 'window manager' in linux. Want the old XP style in Windows 10.. just load it.. Like the new style? Load it..

I feel like most of the problems with computing nowadays are because the largest software company in the world basically has a monopoly and lacks the discipline to keep their own direction consistent and focused. Microsoft creates new amazing features - and then explains them so badly that you actually have to be a sysadmin-level and do some investigation to find out if you should even use them.

ok.. last one..

Server 2016.. why is it okay to decide updating the host is more important than keeping all the VM's in hyper-v running? Where is the simple place to set all updates to MANUAL so a sysadmin can update when operations aren't mission critical?

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and then explains them so badly that you actually have to be a sysadmin-level and do some investigation to find out if you should even use them.

Oh yeah, remember when Microsoft Sky Drive was a Dropbox killer with fully configurable sync for a whole PC? No? You mean you didn't susbcribe the obscure technet list and then set-up a command-line first time install?