Hmmmmmmm......

[CESIL]

So...I saw that I can buy Windows 8 Pro from Microsoft for just £24.95...

 

...but then I see that the minimum specification include a screen at 1366 × 768 i.e. widescreen...

 

I have to ask...what sort of idiot designs an operating system that requires a specific screen ratio?

 

How hard can it be to design the system to adapt to whatever screen dimensions are available?

 

Maybe I am being too critical but this does not seem like a step forward to me.

 

...oh and by the way, my wife has just been given a lovely Nokia 610 Windows phone by her employer and I have to say that I rather like it...and that does not have a widescreen so why do they insist that my desktop must have!

[jamesfed]

Its nothing more than the min resolution to do 'Snapping' in modern UI style applications - this allow one application to chew though 1/3 of the screen and another to take up 2/3.

 

Its been a pain of some netbook users but other than that it shouldn't be an issue for most.