The Microsoft Surface Tablet . . .

Amidst all the 'will it - won't it' debate, what do the insiders know about any Articulate strategy to handle all of this? Can we envision a Storyline product, pushed hard to align with the spread of these new platforms? It's a great product but it's the best part of $2000 and one of the things I certainly need for that is the reassurance to tell clients that stuff will work when they try it.

The IOS and HTML5 publishing is great but as I understand it compromised in terms of the richest content (e.g. java script in IOS)?

I wouldn't mind paying a decent price for a new release which addressed all these issues. anyone know what's on the horizon?

Phil, thanks for that wsj blog link. The this is a complex sell paragraph describes perfectly the confusion Magda alluded to.

Regarding Magda's comment, "The sense I get from the companies I work for is that they are skipping Windows 8 entirely. All have invested heavily in iOS including iPhones and iPads. Most of these companies are still using Windows XP."

I just got off the phone with a client I do screencasts for (Camtasia). Many of his corporate and Enterprise clients also were on XP, but they're not necessarily moving to iOS. Most are in the process of just now moving to Windows 7. Which aligns with some of the articles I'm reading, that corporate will probably skip Windows 8 and wait for whatever the new Windows thing is approximately 4 years from now.

But, maybe that's the "old school" IT way of thinking? And iOS is the new school?

If you got questions re: Surface RT, I got answers.  Picked one up Friday... er two.

So far the Metro UI is great in a touch setting, but i'm not too keen that the desktop environment is still there.  Allbeit limited.  I've been using Win8 since the first RC and gotta say, the more I've used it the less i want to go to the desktop enviro.

Food for thought on RT not running x86 apps, you can remote into a regular computer and use it as is.

Hardware wise, my biggest beefs are the speakers and camera.  Both suck.

I was skeptical about the 16x9 aspect. I like the 7" tabs because portrait layout is easy to hold one handed. Surface, while heavier, does great for reading in portrait, imo.

And anyone using the app store as to what is holding them back, stop reading the media hype.  All of the big apps are there and by the end of Nov/EOY the store is going to be flooded.  Kid apps aside, I've found just about every ipad version available or an equivalent.

So the question for Articulate is, are you going to build an RT player app?  Metro IE does not render and hml5 version of a course very well.

Hi folks, first time here, great resource!

I won a Rt Surface last month.  I appreciate it because I use it to show my videos to clients all the time.

However I ended up here because the tablet doesn't play flash on a lot of sites.  I wanted to listen to live radio from my home town for example but I can't.  Is it true that Microsoft whitelists the sites ?  can someone confirm this?

Very frustrating, I do have the latest flash version btw. 

Hi Alex, your surface will play flash on ANY website and play Storyline courses fine! 

1. Go to the desktop version of IE10, hit the click ALT button on your keyboard, click on and then Compatibility View settings.
2. Uncheck the last checkbox: “Download updated compatibility list from Microsoft”.
3. Open the following file, which is your local version of the whitelist: “C:\Users\[USER_NAME]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\IECompatData\iecompatdata.xml”.
4. Look for the and tags, between which the allowed domains will be listed.
5. Add as many websites as you want using the others as a template: “thewebsiteurl.com”

You  might want to use notepad to edit the xml file.

By the way, save the iecompatdata.xml to your desktop as a shortcut, this way whenever you find a new flash site you can just open the list on your desktop add the site, clear your history and your done! Takes about 30 seconds!

Hope this helps... I have enabled my own site for flash and it works fine and plays storyline flash no problem!

Dan

Dan,thanks.  I managed to get to the xtml list but I can't paste the list on Onenote, tried Word, doesn't work, frankly, I'm frustrated by this process.  I'm wondering if I use the add websites to whitelist in the Tools menu, would that work as well? 

Just right click the file and open with notepad! Then all you need to do is add:

<domain>yoursite.com<</domain>

and save, thats it!

Im not sure about the whitelist... 

I too have a Surface RT and have placed Articulate on the whitelist then deselected the ability to update the white list.  I am still unable to login to AO.  Any help would be much appreciated.  I simply want to login to AO as the administrator to make additions and deletions.

Anyone looking forward to the Surface Pro and possibly considering it? 

Reading some positive things from folks who saw it at CES.

Keith Lowe said:

I too have a Surface RT and have placed Articulate on the whitelist then deselected the ability to update the white list.  I am still unable to login to AO.  Any help would be much appreciated.  I simply want to login to AO as the administrator to make additions and deletions.

You need to make sure its the domain that has the articulate content on that is in the white list. Also make sure you clear your cookies and cache.

Yeah been thinking about it, all im worried about is battery life and if I will need to install desktop applications. Would be nice to have Google Chrome I guess! I use my Surface RT a lot and like it much better than my old iPad 3, so nice having the 10,000 plus drivers and amazing home network access of Windows!