Moving backwards with the times

I feel impelled to write something about Microsoft’s most recent and most loathed foray into the market – Windows 8.

As to why I feel so impelled … I think it’s rage at the con being perpetrated on some of the public – the ones who don’t know what they’re letting themselves in for.

Seems (imnsho) that Microsoft decided everyone should have a touchscreen thinggy of some kind. That’s what they wanted (buggered if I know why: does MS sell handheld devices?) so that’s what they set out to promulgat...