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I'm still a bit sceptical of this. Metro only allows you to work with one app on the screen at a time and you have to hit start every time you want to switch apps instead of a taskbar.

If people want to use their desktop computers in such a way, why didn't they build the UI this way years ago?



In Metro mode, you can have an application running and another application running on the side. [1]

[1] http://www.digitaltrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/wind...


So 2 at a time. Meanwhile I have..

counts

24 windows open across 9 different applications.


That you're looking at at the same time?


I've long since opened and closed things since last comment, but I've got lets see.. 5 windows visible on my screen right now. This browser, a XenCenter session, an IRC client, a script for that IRC client, and a miniaturized iTunes.

2 is such an absurdly low limit as to be virtually useless.


They did. It was called dosshell; it sucked (for various reasons).

Arguably things like screen in a terminal can be interpreted the same way. It's still a very awkward way of multitasking.




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