Then again most of the world is not doing CAD, or engineering, so no doubt the onus to fix the issues lies on the software makers.

And PS... I would hate a touch screen for the work I do... for nearly my entire career I have had to tell colleagues "don't touch the screen..."

I do have an ipad at home (not for work related computing) and yup, the darn screen gets real dirty.

Well win 9 is in development... and perhaps, (typical of MS OS's) this will be the one that works.