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Reconciling the 2 Worlds of Windows 8

• pedalpete 13y ago
  Unfortunately the conclusion leads directly to the problem. Their is no difference between tablets and PCs in Microsoft's long-term vision. This doesn't mean I agree with their design decisions, but I do agree with their vision.
• bcRIPster 13y ago
  Yeah, well the big elephant in the room is the Server 2013 interface which uses the same "Tile World" desktop. Hello, it's a server! Not a tablet, not a touch screen PC... That's the one that completely floored me... and not being addressed in all this 8.1 mania.
  • EpicEng 13y ago
    The same argument can be made (by me, and everyone else, many times) for any desktop. I press the windows button and I get... about 200 icons. That's supposed to be usable? Yeesh.
• xarball 13y ago
  Why not put Windows on Windows? Metro's UI happens to support dynamic layouts. If were allowed to exist within a window, it would coexist a lot more than what they're doing now. Suddenly there would be no penalty for developing apps that use it, and desktop users would still have the ability to help the tablet market. On top of that, you wouldn't need that 2x taskbar anymore.