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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
by 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 agoMozilla and Google are free to add their browsers to store.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoThough it's unlikely they'll want to maintain another distribution for Windows while most Windows users are still on Windows 7.
- kyriakos 10y agoI'm not sure how easily win32 apps can be ported to the store, might be worth the trouble.
- m_fayer 10y agoAs 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 agoNote that Google Chrome was previously available with a "Metro app version" during Win 8 but they retired it.
- kyriakos 10y agoGoogle 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 agoYup. 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 agoMozilla 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 agoIIRC 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 agoBut can't be set as the default.