Microsoft showed off the future of Windows this week at its 2014 Build developer conference, and it looks pretty retro. In fact, it looks a lot like Windows 7.
During a tease of some possible new features in a future update, Microsoft’s executive vice-president of operating systems Terry Myerson revealed a tool that users will recognize from previous versions of Windows: a Start menu. He also showed that users would soon be able to run Modern — aka “Metro” — apps (those apps you buy in the Windows Store with touch-oriented full-screen interfaces) within individual windows on the desktop.
In other words, it’s exactly how Windows used to work. Read more…
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