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Windows 8's Tweet@rama app is a simple, useful front-end to Twitter.
I tried a few other applications as well. Tweet @ The branch application is a simple and direct front-end for Twitter, and lets you create and read tweets. It is not as useful as a customer in good standing of Twitter, like TweetDeck, but for the basics, okay. Socialite application works similar to Facebook. Other applications include location-based application called NearMe, an application for setting alarms, and a painting application called PaintPlay.
One problem with these applications, however, is that there is no standard way to interact with them on a PC. For example, in implementing the News, click a shortcut menu appears - if you're reading an article that will get navigation buttons, and if you're on a summary page, you will get options to add, update and remove food. But if you are in the application of zero gravity in the game, click does nothing. More standardization would be welcome.
Worse, there is no clear way to close many of these applications. For example, Zero Gravity, which has intensely annoying music, has no menu or any other form of close - for when you leave the game to the main interface of a meter, annoying music still plays in the background. Switch to desktop or run other applications Metro, however, and fortunately the music disappears. In fact, I found my solution to the closure of most applications was to change the Metro desk, after a few minutes, the application is running normally Metro closed.
The familiar Windows desktopAll that being said, when do the actual work and the use of Microsoft Office, which ended on the desktop for the simple reason that this is where serious applications.
After you click the desktop tab screen Metro, will feel at first as if it had never gone after Windows 7 - the interface looks and works almost identically to Windows 7. You will see the familiar taskbar at the bottom taskbar with thumbnails, the notification panel to the right of the screen icons and so on.
There are some changes, however. Most notable is that the start button has been completely renovated. By clicking send you back to the main Windows screen Metro appear instead of the Start menu to get to a search box, folder navigation, a link to the control panel and so on. At the interface of Metro, however, the Start button functions as a switch between the interface tasks and applications running.
To find a choice of Windows, you must move the mouse pointer to the lower left corner of the desktop, a shortcut menu that allows you to access settings, devices, share and search. Clicking one of these options, a panel slides into place on the right side of the screen so you can perform the task that you asked. Select Search, for example, and the panel displays a search box, along with a variety of places where you can search.
The Share button lets you share a screenshot using the social networking application Socialite. The button device, designed for printing, gaming and content delivery to others, does not work in this version of Windows 8. And the Settings button lets you change only the most basic functions of the desktop.
One would expect to find the old standby of Windows, the Control Panel, clicking Settings, but no - instead, you have to return to Metro and then click Control Panel tab, scroll to the bottom of the panel Metro control and click on "More Options", which takes you to the old control panel. If the clumsy, slow navigation to reach the control panel is not an indication of how little Microsoft attaches importance to the desktop, I do not know what it is.
There are a few tweaks of some others. For example, Windows Explorer now has a ribbon interface, a great improvement over its previous version.
Reduction of different interfacesEven after using Windows 8 for some time, never got used to the huge differences between the Metro and desktop interfaces. That never seemed like a single operating system - instead, it felt like two different operating systems linked together.
Making matters worse is that Metro applications not shown on the Windows desktop.And although desktop applications appear in Metro, that are so well hidden that they never realize they are there: With the exception of Internet Explorer, you're stuck until the end on the right side of the tiles have to scroll to reach them. And even when running Metro desktop applications that can not take advantage of Metro's ability to display information through the tiles. It is hoped that will change in future versions of Windows 8
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