keyboard shortcuts

Speaking at the Build Windows conference, and then later reiterating it during Microsoft’s Financial Analyst Meeting, Steven Sinofsky — the President of Windows — confirmed that ARM-powered Windows 8 tablets will not run the vast, multi-billion-strong arsenal of existing x86 applications.

We have good news and bad news. The bad: In possibly the longest blog post ever, Alex Simons from the Windows 8 management team has spent over 3,000 words justifying the addition of the infamous ribbon UI to Explorer in Windows 8.

The good: Microsoft, either to soften the blow of the ribbon or simply to prove that someone at Redmond cares, is bringing back the much-loved Up button which, for some reason or another, met its untimely demise between XP and the release of Vista.

The keyboard and mouse may be replaced by a variety of other user interfaces. Touch screens seem to be getting more popular, but "touchless" controllers that interpret gestures are getting some traction, too.

Here are some articles on how we might (not) be interacting with our computers, phones, tablets, etc.

Softpedia: "With this article we want to inform our readers who use Ubuntu 11.04 with Unity about some very useful and helpful mouse tricks and keyboard shortcuts."

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