The industry pioneer has decided the OS has a lot of promise for tablets, where the touch interface and legacy Windows support could provide the best of both worlds.

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Recently, technology provider IFS Corporation did a survey on ERP users in manufacturing ( Does ERP Mean Excel Runs Production?) Their surprising results showed that new employees (especially under age 40) were very unlikely to take a job with a company if they had to use a complex (usually vendor supplied) interface to a legacy application.

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Thanks to huge improvements in web services and application interface design, the user experience of legacy enterprise applications can readily be reengineered for touch.

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DisplayPort was developed to provide a single video interface that both provides advanced features as well as interoperability with legacy displays including VGA and DVI, and HDMI.

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Not surprisingly, an early adopter in the United States is innovator Interface, whose CEO Ray Anderson died earlier this year, leaving a strong legacy of sustainability.

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