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ASP.NET
Category:
Visual Studio
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Environment:
VB 9.0
OS:
Windows Server 2012
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Windows 2008 Server
Database:
MS SQL Server
Application:
Web
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Thread ID:
01577351
Message ID:
01577448
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The need Windows 8.1 Developer's Edition.

I do have a dumb question about Windows 8 though - people are complaining about the multi-window problem. What's to keep a user from going to the desktop and running multi-window apps just as we do now from there? I've only messed around with a preview version of Windows 8 and at the time there was a hack to bring back the start button (a workaround that Microsoft quickly squashed) - but anyway other than the start button - what's the big deal? Like how hard is it to click on "desktop" tile on metro interface? Maybe I don't understand the problem - but to me it seems like no big deal at all.

>Nope. There are things that don't make sense for a metro UI. VS is one of them. Office is another, unless they can come up with a compelling reason to make me change my mind.
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>There are even enhancements to WPF in .Net Framework 4.5.1
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>>Isn't that what everyone is supposed to do so all our applications can be in the Windows Store so Microsoft can make $$ off them? Plus of course we can rewrite for RT too to try to save that from hitting the scrap heap before Win 8 desktop..
ICQ 10556 (ya), 254117
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