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> ...if you want to stay permanently immersed in that Metro world, you will never see the desktop we won’t even load it (literally the code will not be loaded)
by Flemlord 15y ago
> ...if you want to stay permanently immersed in that Metro world, you will never see the desktop we won’t even load it (literally the code will not be loaded) unless you explicitly choose to go there!
This bodes well. I hope the Metro UI is as comprehensive as this implies, where casual users will never see the old UI. If you can do it on the iPad, it should be doable on a Win8 tablet (in the new UI).
- iaskwhy 15y agoAnd this is actually news since they always said the old UI would be there. I agree, this is the way to go.
- pbz 15y agoI hope the reverse is true too, i.e. not loading metro ui if not used.
- jerhinesmith 15y agoYeah, I read this and immediately thought of the terminal in OSX. Sure, there's a full unix environment beneath it all, and the people that want it (in most cases, developers) can use it. But, you can definitely use OSX, be willfully ignorant of the terminal and/or unix, and not feel like you're missing out. If Microsoft can pull off a similar analog, I think this could really work.
- Flemlord 15y agoThe analogy that clicked with me is that Win8 is to Win7 as Windows was to DOS. It will always be around for legacy purposes but if you're creating an app today, you'd be crazy not to use build for Win8. And existing vendors will eventually migrate their existing Windows apps.
- crenshaw 15y agoI agree. As an app dev who builds for the iPad and its 30M users -- why wouldn't you build for Win8 and its 100M users (if it flops) or 400M (if it sells as projected)? Sure there are 1B+ more users out there, but given that Win8 has the app store, I'll take the hundreds of millions with the app store. Legacy windows slowly becomes the truck that Jobs spoke of. Metro becomes the car. Windows, having both, becomes the SUV.