Win 8.1 Why Metro is back, with a vengeance. [View all]
Metro is more than the 'Modern UI' transition to touch computing. Modern-UI-Metro (Microsoft was too cheap to negotiate with a German Grocery store chain, to use the name) is the Apple App Store model, the complete walled garden: a-one-stop-no-other-shop serving unique IDs,unre-saleable software, pre-appoval, content restrictions, on demand removal from the store and device, and of course, the 30% cut. Metro-shop has one up on Apple for the moment, lease-only (read subscription) apps. Next up I suppose, is a variation of the XBox One's 'don't pirate me bro', users will logon via the internet once in a while or have their apps de-activated. Modern Indeed.
8.1 allows you to boot straight to the desktop, with a start button that takes you straight back to the Metro. Desktop (read Windows) software are now 'legacy applications', the legacy of Metro's drawbridge into prison. New to Win 8.1, you can now run four Metro apps on one screen. No doubt the Modern UI will evolve further to allow us to have overlapping windows again, you know, like Windows, with that modern added extra - a shiny new ball and chain.
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