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Lots of people have asked me whether I’m serious about tapping on a Windows machine. Yes, I am, and I hope you will be, too.

I tried the old stylus Windows interface, back when the luggable Windows tablets first appeared, in the Windows XP days. I hated it. I still hate it. I hated it so much that when I saw someone using an iPad, all I could think was, “Oh, that must suck.” (Remember, suck is a technical term.)

An hour later, I tried an iPad, and suddenly using a finger was fine. More than fine, it was tremendous. When my then-18-month-old son spent a few hours playing on the iPad and started using the interface like a virtuoso, I was hooked. The tap-and-swipe interface is astonishingly easy to learn, use, and remember.

Windows 10’s tap interface isn’t as elegant as the iPad’s. Sorry, but it’s true. The main difference is that Windows has to accommodate lots of things that the iPad just doesn’t do — right-click comes immediately to mind (although tablets have tap-and-hold to simulate right-click; the iPhone even has 3D touch, which goes way beyond clicking). But for many, many things that I do every day — web surfing, quickly checking email, scrolling through Twitter, catching up on Facebook, reading the news, looking at the stock market, and on and on — the touch interface is vastly superior to a mouse and keyboard. At least, it is to me.

That said, yes, you can get used to a tablet without a mouse and keyboard.

As I’m writing this book, I have three computers on my desk. One’s a traditional desktop running Windows 10, and one’s running the latest beta test version of Windows 10. The third is a Win10 tablet with a portable keyboard — a Surface Pro. When I want to look up something quickly, guess which one I use? Bzzzzzt. Wrong. I pick up my Nexus phone — or my iPad. “OK, Google, where is Timbuktu?” “Navigate to Costco.” “Call the Recreation Center.”

So this section offers a whirlwind tour of your new Windows 10 home that helps you start clicking and tapping your way around.