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I wonder if they actually thought they would eventually port the major applications to Metro? Somehow hard to believe that the master plan was to have this mess
by jpalomaki 13y ago
I wonder if they actually thought they would eventually port the major applications to Metro? Somehow hard to believe that the master plan was to have this mess between Metro and traditional desktop going on forever. On the other hand porting apps like Office to Metro would have been quite a job. The whole concept would probably have to be resigned.
For my usage it would be been quite fine if the old desktop apps could run as Metro apps. I really liked how the splitting of the screen between multiple Metro apps worked in Windows 8.1. It was easier to use the screen efficiently than with traditional desktop windows.
- dublinben 13y ago>It was easier to use the screen efficiently than with traditional desktop windows Did you never take advantage of Aero Snap in Windows 7? It's far more useful and versatile than the limit multitasking of Metro in Windows 8.
- contextfree 13y agoThe problem with Windows 7 snap is it's still tied to the overlapping window model, so when you snap a window it just goes on top of whatever was on screen and doesn't automatically manage the remaining space.
- contextfree 13y agoI don't understand the use of the "would have been" tense. It's not a hypothetical thing, they are in the process of doing exactly that right now.