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Working from "desktop" in Windows 8?
I am taking delivery later this month of a new PC running on Windows 8, (presumably in fact 8.1)
I am used to Windows XP and to working from my "desktop" screen. Microsoft claims I can still do this in Windows 8, and that I can set Windows 8 to go to "desktop" instead of the Start screen when I turn on the PC.
Is this so, and will it really feel and behave like what I'm used to with XP?
2 Answers
- BlackenedLv 67 years agoFavourite answer
With the latest iteration of Windows 8 (8.1 Update 1) you will get a lot of similar functionality. The biggest change for me was that in the latest update you can access the toolbar from everywhere...even in full screen programs (Metro) by moving you mouse to the bottom of the screen and pulling down a little. They also added minimize and close buttons to the metro apps. And, lastly metro apps show up in the tool bar. Those changes all together make the metro apps feel just like other desktop apps, so it doesn't feel like you're using 2 different operating systems.
MS supposedly is also going to enable metro apps to operate in their own separate windows in a future Windows 8.x update, so eventually Windows 8 will feel very familiar to Windows users migrating from previous Windows versions.
