{"id":4909,"date":"2012-05-21T16:51:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T21:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2012-05-21T16:54:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T21:54:48","slug":"creating-the-windows-8-user-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/21\/creating-the-windows-8-user-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating the Windows 8 User Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/b8\/archive\/2012\/05\/18\/creating-the-windows-8-user-experience.aspx\">Jensen Harris<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1001_3-57437562-92\/microsoft-opines-vista-was-cheesy-drops-aero\/\">Brooke Crothers<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/b8\/archive\/2012\/05\/18\/creating-the-windows-8-user-experience.aspx\">\n<p>Even with multitasking in the existing desktop still present (and improved), we did feel like only offering &ldquo;one-at-a-time&rdquo; in the Metro style experience was a bit of a constraint, and not totally true to the Windows history of multitasking. So we evolved Snap for Windows 8.This feature lets you run any two WinRT-based apps side-by-side, so that you can watch a video while you browse the web, or video chat while checking mail. And we created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/download\/en\/details.aspx?id=27411\">facilities for background processing<\/a> of a wide class of apps, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/b8\/archive\/2011\/11\/02\/updating-live-tiles-without-draining-your-battery.aspx\">background notification capabilities<\/a> that are unique to Windows as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like how open Microsoft is about their thought processes. It&rsquo;ll be interesting to see whether they can pull off this &ldquo;no compromises&rdquo; thing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jensen Harris (via Brooke Crothers): Even with multitasking in the existing desktop still present (and improved), we did feel like only offering &ldquo;one-at-a-time&rdquo; in the Metro style experience was a bit of a constraint, and not totally true to the Windows history of multitasking. So we evolved Snap for Windows 8.This feature lets you run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4916,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions\/4916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}