These people, maybe thinking MS as unable to develop nothing more than a desktop with some windows inside, after the surprise went to the rejection without any try, making an unproven judgement of the Modern UI. I do not see any “limitation” in being the unique competitor to allow some features like these.Īl criticisms to the Modern UI currently come from people that, just expecting from MS Windows 8 some routinary UI adaptations to the touch screens, were surprised by the ideas behind the Modern UI itself in Windows 8 (that can be considered, starting from live tiles and going to the apps in tlled mode, far superior with respect to the competitors). Regarding the blogger opinions on full screen/windowed mode, Windows 8.1 and RT 8.1 allow the Modern UI apps to be tiled vertically (up to 4), being the unique tablet OS to do so. My compliments, for your fingers and for your eyes!!! What about you? Are there situations where you prefer to run an app on Windows 8?Īre you using an 8 inches tablet in desktop mode? I'm pretty certain that I won't be using those apps though, apart from testing them for reviews. Giving users choice is always a good thing, and bringing something to the platform does not take away anything from users who do not like it or do not want to use it. I think it is a good thing that VLC is porting the media player to Windows 8. It may also be an option for touch-screen users, or users who prefer to run the Modern UI app for whatever reason. I can see its uses in the future, once it got ported so that it runs on ARM devices as well.
This may change in the future, if Microsoft allows Windows Store apps to be run on the desktop in windows. Sure, you can snap it to one side of the screen, and maybe it will come with presets to change the player size, but a window gives you way more control over it than an app can. What you cannot do with the app right now is change the video player size. You can run videos in full screen using the desktop app, just like the app-version of VLC Media Player will run in full screen. I'm talking about functionality here mainly, but also usability unless you happen to use a touch interface.
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