China did this with other Versions of M$ Products. - ban the use to several million and Yes, again M$ will lower the cost. and China will be happy. and I for one usually "Try before I buy" and see for my self If I think the new is Better than the OLD>>>>
Beats me LOL, maybe MS haven't decided it themselves yet(??) What I had heard was(take with the uaual salt treatment), the windowed apps will probably be for Threshold, like @NaiveUser said, it involes quite of lot of API treatments.
I can see into the future. :crystal:Ms will have a start menu:crystal: :crystaleople will rejoice:crystal: :crystaleople will try it:crystal: :crystaleople will condemn the start menu:crystal: :crystaleople will cry:crystal: People will cry... Prove me wrong, Pahhlease! I don't know how much more bitchin I can handle about buttons and menus. Seems the underlying system is no longer a concern lol
It's like it's become trendy to whine about every design choice MS makes. Yes, they tried something different with the metro start menu. Yes it sucked... Boycott-worthy? hardly...
If Update 2 doesn't have Start Menu/metro apps on Desktop it may be because of the Charms that still need to be redesigned to fit the windowed paradigm, would be pretty s**tty user experience to have a bunch of windows and everytime to change some settings or share etc you need to go to the bottom right corner and swipe up, or use your kb shortcuts even though your window is just.. a window so the movement required is too huge. The new Charms need to be actually on the window itself or it's just a crappy implemention.
If they ADD the Start Menu BACK to Windows 8.1 up2 then why even have Windows 8 .... they just might as well Sh*t Can Windows 8 and Restore XP. When ask, I voted to BAN Start Menu.
Windows 8.1 is an update to Windows 8, isn't it ? I think the situation of Threshold is really awkward, AFAICT, Threshold is orignally planned as something similiar to Blue, so it should be very natual to have more rumors about "Windows 8.2", but now, some source says it could be branded "Windows 9", other sources say it could be branded "Windows 8.1 Update 3", IMHO both are weird naming for Threshold, which technically more like an interim release for me. and IMHO "Windows 8.1 Update 3" is very unlikely since Threshold has substantial API changes, but "Windows 9" is also a twist. so everything is possible at Redmond now ? AFAICS, MJF is far more conservative than Paul Thurrott on the "Windows 9" naming, her expressions were always like "we dont know if Threshold will be called Windows 9 or not". what she could confirm is "Threshold is not Windows 8.1 Update 3", which I tend to believe.