I found that once I got used to the gestures (using your thumbs a bit more), I started appreciating the new way of working with apps. The differences are mainly in the new touch-based gestures and about the missing start button. Windows 8 takes a bit of getting used to. There is no longer any need to open a VPN tunnel via the RSA SecureID card, unless you really need to go to internal shared drives or other internal software. Interesting is the way we can work with Microsoft Outlook without opening a VPN tunnel.
SAP logon and SAPGUI of course also work well. Of course SAP has recognized that development on one unified UI5 is much more effective than developing on iOS, WIN8, RIM and Android separately. Even some of our new UI5 based reporting is already available internally. Right now I have 11 native (C#) developed SAP Apps running (mostly demo), two Fiori apps (much more to come) and a couple of others like SAP Mobile documents. The majority of apps was done on iOS (Xcode) first, but we see increasing demand for WIN8 Apps due to the fact that people are used to this environment. For the weekend I do need the power adapter.Īt SAP we already started working on WIN8 apps last year. When I go home I just undock the tablet from the keyboard and use the apps for the rest of the day. If wireless charging were available, I could work without any cable connection. All classic Windows applications (especially MS Office) work fine and have no compatibility issues like on some other OS.Īs a next step I plan to activate WIDI (wireless display) because it would also connect the monitor wirelessly. I can connect to my c:\ drives and any other shared drives and printers in the company just like I am used to. I can now edit and work on it again instead of only consuming data. This is an excellent compromise between tablet and desktop device.
Especially when downloading some details from an app, I can seamlessly continue to work in MS Excel.
On the road I can always switch between them. For me this is the perfect Hybrid device. Surface 2 would have been an option (The new one comes with Haswell processor longer battery life) but this was not available internally yet.īelow a picture of my desk it shows the double screens (small one is the touch enabled Modern UI and ideal for Apps, large one is for normal work at my desk) and Bluetooth keyboard and mouse (to avoid the cable mess). Main reason is the fact that Lenovo is the newer model. I decided to go for a Lenovo Helix with Intel i5 and 256 GB SSD disk instead of the Microsoft SURFACE pro. So I thought it would be a good idea to give you a short impression on my first experiences. I am probably one of the first employees at SAP in Walldorf who works with Windows 8 every day.
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