thisistheverge: Microsoft explains the making of the Windows 8 touch keyboard Microsoft has posted its latest entry on the Building Windows 8 blog exploring some of the ergonomic and functionally challenging aspects of typing on a touchscreen versus a more traditional keyboard. In order to offer its users the most comfortable and accurate on-screen keyboard, Microsoft did copious amounts of research ranging from ergonomics trials to adaptive key layouts. It’s interesting (and good) that Microsoft is doing all this work/research on touch-typing even though they are hedging the bet with the Surface keyboard cover.  Seemingly every day I see more and more people typing on their iPads without a keyboard attachment of any kind. I saw one guy a couple days ago typing just as fast as I type on a physical keyboard.  High-res

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Microsoft explains the making of the Windows 8 touch keyboard

Microsoft has posted its latest entry on the Building Windows 8 blog exploring some of the ergonomic and functionally challenging aspects of typing on a touchscreen versus a more traditional keyboard. In order to offer its users the most comfortable and accurate on-screen keyboard, Microsoft did copious amounts of research ranging from ergonomics trials to adaptive key layouts.

It’s interesting (and good) that Microsoft is doing all this work/research on touch-typing even though they are hedging the bet with the Surface keyboard cover. 

Seemingly every day I see more and more people typing on their iPads without a keyboard attachment of any kind. I saw one guy a couple days ago typing just as fast as I type on a physical keyboard.