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This looks like a really neat interface. I know it's just a developer preview, but the article left me with a few big questions: - Is this going to be the inte
by angusgr 15y ago
This looks like a really neat interface. I know it's just a developer preview, but the article left me with a few big questions:
- Is this going to be the interface on all Windows 8 variants (desktop, tablet, professional & home - or whatever those last two are called now)?
- If this interface _is_ being marketed to enterprise customers as well, has Microsoft demonstrated any clever ways it will work for them? It all looks fairly home-centric at the moment.
- How do legacy Windows apps run in this environment? I run a tiling WM on my Debian laptop and I spend a lot of my time tweaking regular apps so they'll look OK in a non-traditional layout. Is there going to be some equivalent of 7's Windows XP Mode that switches you to a different desktop?
- smiler 15y agoTo answer your questions - Microsoft have not yet revealed what SKUs they will ship for Win8, but they have said the home screen on all versions will be this Metro interface - Clearly it will be marketed to them. - In the home screen, there is a desktop tile. Select this and you get the Windows desktop as you'd expect where everything will run normally. It does not switch you to a VM or anything like that.