Hey, Microsoft: It's the apps, stupid

Microsoft today revealed some of the changes in Windows 8 due to reach customers in a month, but didn't address what analysts called the biggest barrier to the OS's success. That would be Windows 8 apps, dubbed "Modern" apps, or if one sticks to Microsoft's original but now discarded moniker, "Metro" apps.
"The bottom line is that there is not a Modern app that does anything for me," said Michael Cherry of Directions on Microsoft, a Kirkland, Wash. research firm that focuses only on Microsoft. "And the real danger [with the changes in Windows 8.1] is that developers start to think, 'I might as well stay with an old-style, Win32 app.'"
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Microsoft's original premise was based on requiring customers to use the Start screen, or at least move through it, before reaching the "classic" desktop that closely resembles Windows 7. With boot-to-desktop and the new App view, however, exposure to the Start screen and apps has been diminished.
Developers may use the boot-to-desktop option as an excuse not to write top-notch apps for the Modern user interface (UI), Cherry said -- a disastrous turn for Microsoft.
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Hey, Microsoft: It's the apps, stupid - Computerworld

Looks like Classic Shell and other shells put a kink in M$ plans to shove Metro down our throats.
 
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I am really curious what MS is going to do if a decent amount of Windows 8 users do not update to 8.1. Will all future Windows 8 updates, hot fixes, and service packs be both 8.0 and 8.1 compliant?
I see nothing in this update which would prompt me to actually create a MS account and fiddle around with the app store to download and hope nothing I have set up becomes broken. My system is running great with 8.0 and Start8.
 

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snoop101 said:
I am really curious what MS is going to do if a decent amount of Windows 8 users do not update to 8.1. Will all future Windows 8 updates, hot fixes, and service packs be both 8.0 and 8.1 compliant?
I see nothing in this update which would prompt me to actually create a MS account and fiddle around with the app store to download and hope nothing I have set up becomes broken. My system is running great with 8.0 and Start8.
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They will have to support both if not the backlash could be even louder who would buy Windows 8 with support being dropped only a year or so later. I see Windows 8 being dropped with every thing going to 8.1 kinda like Windows 7 support, no support unless you have service pack 1 installed.
 

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They are exactly right.

Microsoft's original premise was based on requiring customers to use the Start screen, or at least move through it, before reaching the "classic" desktop
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That is why they didn't allow boot to desktop and why they removed start menu.

With boot-to-desktop and the new App view, however, exposure to the Start screen and apps has been diminished.
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It is not as bad for MS as it sounds. They have merely delayed exposure to the start screen until the user hits the start button.

MS realised many advanced/power users would see that as an ambush or a massive FU. Therefore they will let them change the default to all apps. view . No skin off MS nose. Those users will almost certainly have used a start menu replacement anyhow. If some of them decide to use all apps instead - that is a win for MS. They have thought this through.
 

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