Open web
app in separate window: Most web apps open by default in your browser as a webpage.
Our take: Considering that Chromebooks can now run Android
apps in separate windows, the future of pro-level Android tablets looks to be migrating to touchscreen Chromebooks — ideally, we'll see convertible Chromebooks that can fold into a tablet configuration like Acer's Chromebook R 13, Samsung's Chromebook Plus, and the Asus Chromebook Flip 302CA, our current pick for best Chromebook.
Not exact matches
There's a new file - storage system, an
app dock similar to the one on Mac, the ability to drag and drop content
in between
apps, and
apps that float
in separate windows.
Features of the BBM
app for
Windows Phone include: BBID setup and log -
in, BBM profiles, invite a contact and suggested contacts (based on people you know), 1 - to - 1 and multi-person chat, contact categories (handy for
separating out work colleagues, family, and friends), and BBM groups.
By eliminating the need to sign
in with
separate credentials or create an account
in advance, the NOOK for
Windows 8
app provides customers seamless access to NOOK's vast selection of digital books, magazines, newspapers and comics on
Windows 8.
Starting with the OS, we can see a flat UI, which we know is not unique to Microsoft but when you add
in a taskbar and
apps that look like the Modern applications
in Windows 8, it's hard not to say that these two were brothers
separated at birth.
A lot of them only allow you to write within a very constrained
window where you can fit one or two words before the
app wants to append those words to a
separate image of the notes that it renders
in a
window above the writing area.
The Xbox
app will sign you into Xbox Live with the Microsoft account you sign into
Windows 10 with by default, but you can choose to sign
in with a different Microsoft account if you have those accounts
separate.
«OneDrive» should just be a
separate listing within the File Explorer
app just like it is
in the desktop version of
Windows 10.
You can either long press a thumbnail
in overview mode or long press the overview button and you'll be able to have two
separate windows with
separate apps running
in each.
Windows 10
apps now show on the desktop rather than
in a
separate environment as with
Windows 8.
Honestly we can't understand why Microsoft does not already provide this feature
in Windows for people that aren't using a touchscreen device, and especially for people using a multiple monitor setup, where you can't even use a Modern
app on a
separate monitor at the same time as a desktop
app on the first monitor.
Essentially, the standard page file is used for the normal things
in Windows, while the Microsoft's new
app framework uses a
separate type of file for intelligently swapping out bits of new
apps.
Moreover, these
apps rely on another additional process to display their content
in a
separate window on the
Windows computer using Application Frame Host.
We just hope the developers add bulk uninstall and
separate Windows Store
apps from x86 programs
in a future release.
With
Windows 10 Mobile, Microsoft can easily update different parts of the OS, as they have been
separated into
apps, available
in the Store.
Xbox Music and Xbox Video will ship as
separate apps for 8.1, and we understand Microsoft is considering similar changes for other built -
in apps for future
Windows Phone updates.
Microsoft is expected to allow «Metro»
apps to run
in separate windows on the traditional desktop.
With this build, Sets is coming to
Windows Insiders as a very early preview with limited functionality, but once finished in 2018, it will enhance your productivity as you could open apps as tabs, not only as separate w
Windows Insiders as a very early preview with limited functionality, but once finished
in 2018, it will enhance your productivity as you could open
apps as tabs, not only as
separate windowswindows.
We've known for a while that both Microsoft and Google are working to improve the multitasking features
in their respective operating systems, Google recently added support to run two
separate apps at the same
in «split screen mode», similar to
Windows 10's tablet mode feature.
But you can open them
in a
separate window and make them look like an actual
app instead.
Unified messaging — Microsoft's messages hub let
Windows Phone users chat via SMS or messaging
apps like Skype
in a single thread without needing to juggle
separate apps.
With
Windows 10, Microsoft
separated some core
Windows functionalities into
apps available from the Store, but currently, Microsoft rolls out
App Previews only to users in the Skip Ahead ring, which means you have to install super-early builds of the OS to receive the latest app updat
App Previews only to users
in the Skip Ahead ring, which means you have to install super-early builds of the OS to receive the latest
app updat
app updates.
This doesn't look good on our workstations, perhaps it's suitable for home tablets / laptops or 2
in 1s, but I really wished that MS would make a
separate version of
Windows without the useless
apps or touch features and with a redesigned non tablet optimized interface that improves from Win 7.