> Too bad!
It's unfortunate, but over time you get really used to this response. I
stopped counting how many of my 300+ submissions where closed with that
resolution. In the beginning of the beta, I got really annoyed by it. By
now, I just accept it and move on. I simply don't have the time nor
willpower to fight that resolution for the 100 or so times I probably
have seen it....
> I menawhile fell over quite a larger number of similar issues where
> one is helpless without a keyboard.
Couldn't you bring up the on-screen keyboard?
> This and the overall usage of the "task aerea" (sorry, don't know the
> English term) instead of the space saving dialogs makes me think that
> the develpoers' and Quality Assurance teams did not really base there
> concepts and their tests on TabletPCs as a major field of concern.
ON is mainly used not on TabletPCs (20% or something like that are
tabletPC users if I remember the numbers from a blog post correctly).
However, if you have a tabletpc, you are almost certainly going to use
ON...
> Any responsable person being tied to exclsusively using a "slate"
> would have stumbled over only too many areas where the concept goes
> half way only [siiiigh]
I think most people at MS probably use tablets that are also full
laptops (like mine).
Patrick Schmid
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>
> Rainald
>
> Patrick Schmid
nospam.pschmid.net> shared these words of
> wisdom:>> Heard back from MS: "Thank you for the feedback, this issue has a
>> potentially large impact and will be evaluated for consideration
>> beyond the beta timeframe."
>> In plain English: This is MS's catch-all message for issues that
>> they recognize as such, but won't fix for 2007.
>>
>> Patrick Schmid
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http://pschmid.net
>>
>> "Grant Robertson"
BOGUS.com> wrote in message
>> news:uShqpSipGHA.4932@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl:
>>>>> In article
,
>>> srd152000 @yahoo.com says...>>>> This is unfair. Grant read presumptions into Patrick's comment
>>>> that were simply not present, not by any stretch of the
>>>> imagination.. It was such a gross distortion that I think it
>>>> was disingenuous. Then you just assumed Grant had a point, or
>>>> worse, agreed with him. But maybe for you it involves fine
>>>> points of English. Here is where Grant misrepresents what Patrick
>>>> was saying:
>>>>
>>>> "You pretending that they don't exist and that pressing the
>>>> control key should be easy for anybody doesn't jive with the
>>>> whole tablet/stylus centric model that ON is supposedly built
>>>> around."
>>>
>>> A) I think Patrick will live through the ordeal.
>>>
>>> B) I read the messages in the order they are presented to me by
>>> my newsreader. It is in threaded order not exact chronological
>>> order. I am pretty sure I read at least two messages by Patrick
>>> defending the ctrl- tap-slide method before I made my comments
>>> which were before I read Patrick's mention of having entered a
>>> bug. C) It's great that Patrick entered it as a bug.
>>>
>>> D) I don't have the time to be disingenuous. I just call em as
>>> I see em and move the heck on. I am often blunt but try not to
>>> be mean. I also recognize that we are probably all adults and
>>> able to move past misunderstandings.
>>>
>>> E) I still think it sucks that I can't flip through pages just
>>> using the stylus but I figure I have said all there is to say
>>> on the issue and can now only hope for the best.
