... you should be able to drive all of RT, in combination with your normal applications, from the desktop, without a thematic break to fullscreen and using the traditional icon setup the desktop has used since it began....If they don't, they're screwed.
So what you are saying is that WinRT should be secondary to Win32 and that the desktop app should control all of WinRT apps because the "thematic break" is unacceptable.
Um... no? RT apps and Win32 applications would sit side by side as icons. They're just shortcuts, you can either have them running .exe files or launching .appx's. Its all the same to me, .appx's are simply mobile applications with a lot more security involved. This isn't an either/or. I could have Word or Excel as icons.. and then beside it.. Angry Birds. If I doubleclick Angry Birds, it launches as an RT app, windowed if I had chosen that. If I close it, it drops me back to the desktop. I then click Excel and the application runs as it would normally.
Or I have 15 apps and 12 desktop applications open and can alt-tab between them. Who cares? Stop thinking that RT apps are unique snowflakes, they aren't. They're simply a different wrapper for applications.
Well, I disagree and that is not how code development trends are panning out. The "public" as you refer will have to learn how to use the new designs without all this bickering from a lack of familiarity because a UI "gets in the way".
This isn't the 90's, man. The "public" has plenty of options beyond Windows 8, including Windows 7
. So don't think you can shove something down the public's throat and say 'swallow'.
As far as the definition of a workstation concerned, most of the systems I see in offices, hospitals, labs, libraries and other places stay in one application most of the time. I really do not see such a drastic unintuitive mind boggling repulsion from selecting a tile then going to work.
And if an enterprise wants to use a workstation for only one application, and run it from the tile screen, both of those things are viable choices. But just because a specific enterprise may want to run only one application, that doesn't mean that EVERYBODY only wants to one run application.
Also bear in mind that I in no way advocate getting rid of the tile screen in any way. I'm simply saying that for workstations, you should have the Option of driving everything from the desktop interface,
and not leaving it. Tile screen is great to drive small devices like tablets or phones, it is not the preferred way of driving a workstation.
Tile interface simply gets in the way, and is a poor use of resources, in a lot of situations involving larger screens and systems.
Also disagree. What do you mean by resources?
I'm talking about having a Weather App take up 24-30" worth of screen space
. I never run my main applications full screen, why do I want my Apps each taking up the whole screen and hiding everything on a large monitor?