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Panay also alluded to you being able to upgrade the new Surface Laptop to Windows Pro, if you needed it. They are pushing Win32 apps to go into the store, so ap

Panay also alluded to you being able to upgrade the new Surface Laptop to Windows Pro, if you needed it. They are pushing Win32 apps to go into the store, so app published there that are Win32 will be supported in Windows S.

kyriakos 10y ago
yeah that sounds like Windows RT but up-gradable if needed. The thing is, for a lot of people just running Office and a browser they'll be happy. What a lot of people won't like is having Edge only as their browser though.
- MikusR 10y ago
  Mozilla and Google are free to add their browsers to store.
  - ocdtrekkie 10y ago
    Though it's unlikely they'll want to maintain another distribution for Windows while most Windows users are still on Windows 7.
    - kyriakos 10y ago
      I'm not sure how easily win32 apps can be ported to the store, might be worth the trouble.
      - m_fayer 10y ago
        As long as your app doesn't do anything too esoteric, it's easy. https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bridges/desktop https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bridges/deskto...
      - ocdtrekkie 10y ago
        Note that Google Chrome was previously available with a "Metro app version" during Win 8 but they retired it.
        kyriakos 10y ago
        Google will release one if they expect a market share for Windows S. They are offering the browser as a gateway to their services after all.
        ocdtrekkie 10y ago
        Yup. Same for the Firefox version. Both can do it, but as long as almost everyone on Windows can support the standard Win32 version and a large number can't use the UWP version, it makes no sense to expend a lot of effort on this.
        yohui 10y ago
        Mozilla was working on a Metro version of Firefox, too, but canned it due to lack of interest: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/03/14/metro/ https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/03/14/metro/
        abrowne 10y ago
        IIRC browsers in Win 8 "Metro" mode had some exceptions, like they could run non-Metro code in the background. This time around they don't seem to be offering this exception.
  - wvenable 10y ago
    But can't be set as the default.

kyriakos 10y ago

yeah that sounds like Windows RT but up-gradable if needed. The thing is, for a lot of people just running Office and a browser they'll be happy. What a lot of people won't like is having Edge only as their browser though.

MikusR 10y ago
Mozilla and Google are free to add their browsers to store.
- ocdtrekkie 10y ago
  Though it's unlikely they'll want to maintain another distribution for Windows while most Windows users are still on Windows 7.
  - kyriakos 10y ago
    I'm not sure how easily win32 apps can be ported to the store, might be worth the trouble.
    - m_fayer 10y ago
      As long as your app doesn't do anything too esoteric, it's easy. https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bridges/desktop https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bridges/deskto...
    - ocdtrekkie 10y ago
      Note that Google Chrome was previously available with a "Metro app version" during Win 8 but they retired it.
      - kyriakos 10y ago
        Google will release one if they expect a market share for Windows S. They are offering the browser as a gateway to their services after all.
        ocdtrekkie 10y ago
        Yup. Same for the Firefox version. Both can do it, but as long as almost everyone on Windows can support the standard Win32 version and a large number can't use the UWP version, it makes no sense to expend a lot of effort on this.
      - yohui 10y ago
        Mozilla was working on a Metro version of Firefox, too, but canned it due to lack of interest: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/03/14/metro/ https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/03/14/metro/
      - abrowne 10y ago
        IIRC browsers in Win 8 "Metro" mode had some exceptions, like they could run non-Metro code in the background. This time around they don't seem to be offering this exception.
- wvenable 10y ago
  But can't be set as the default.