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What's the experience of a Metro app on a large screen monitor...always fullscreen? The app is either running or not? Multiple Metro apps displayed/running simultaneously? Is Metro on by default for "pcs?"

Yes. Yes. Sort of. Yes, and you can't turn it off.

You can run 2 metro apps at a time. 1 in fullscreen with the other "docked" in a limited mode to the side.




Interesting. So doesn't sound possible to divide the screen such as for an editor/Word on one half and to read a PDF or use a browser on the other half?


Not with Metro apps, on the desktop everything works the same though.


I already dread the number of times I anticipate seeing users with 24"/30" monitors running some Metrofied equivalent of Notepad or Calculator.


In Windows 8, Notepad and Calculator are still desktop apps only.




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