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> It is very interesting that Sinofsky was unable to get Office "Metroified" It's quite amazing because office seems to be the only reason the desktop mode exi
by zmmmmm 14y ago
> It is very interesting that Sinofsky was unable to get Office "Metroified"
It's quite amazing because office seems to be the only reason the desktop mode exists in RT. So it means that it was apparently easier to port all of the Windows desktop to ARM so as to run Office (subobtimally) in desktop mode than it was to put a touch-based UI on Office. It's hard to think this was an optimal choice of direction, they must have been forced to do this as a least worst option ... the only way to ship office in time. But what does that say about Office? How bad must the internal code be, or the team managing it, or the process they have, if re-skinning it is more effort than porting all of the Windows desktop?
- Cbasedlifeform 14y agoMy thoughts exactly (but expressed much more eloquently!). "Least worst option" sums it up.
- bztzt 14y agoPorting all of the Windows desktop is essentially negative effort, in that the new parts of the shell are (intentionally) so technically intertwined with the pre-existing parts that it's easier to just port everything than try to separate them.