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ugh, Mark Penn continues to find ways to annoy me in every sphere of life no matter where he or I go, it's amazing.

So ... link, then? (btw, IE10 like all browsers is really a desktop app)

@evildictaitor: Where are you getting the "official" reason (link?)

I don't like the font rendering either, but my understanding is it was done for performance reasons and not really for the orientation reason people seem to think was behind it.

I don't think it's quite right to say (most of) those applications won't ever work in the new model, I think it would be more accurate to say that the new model will need to evolve and expand its support before those applications will work in it, and it will take some years for that to play out.

Why don't you just pin your desktop apps to Start? Then it's not 1, but 0 extra clicks to open the app you want. That is the intended/expected usage model in Windows 8 and it's why it boots to Start in the first place.

imo it's progress over the Win7 situation where the settings dialog/menu is in a different place in every app (and in some apps already was hidden, e.g. in Explorer or Media Player under "Alt").

lol, it's obviously a joke

Desktop SkyDrive = Sync with local folder

Metro SkyDrive = Doesn't sync, just a way to access and manage files remotely

I don't quite get why in this situation I wouldn't just keep it as a desktop app at least until the API and/or hardware situation improves. I mean, where is the requirement to make a "metro" app actually coming from?