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[loco365]

Well, I found a neat little feature. Let's say you have Tweet@rama open. You need to constantly go to the side and scroll to it and call it forward. I found out how to split your screen between Windows Explorer and any Metro app. It'll look like so:

Spoiler

What you do is you go to the left side of the screen and pick your app, but you click and drag it out and it will split it. You can put the weather there, Twitter, anything.

 

[LightyKD]

Well, I found a neat little feature. Let's say you have Tweet@rama open. You need to constantly go to the side and scroll to it and call it forward. I found out how to split your screen between Windows Explorer and any Metro app. It'll look like so:

Spoiler

What you do is you go to the left side of the screen and pick your app, but you click and drag it out and it will split it. You can put the weather there, Twitter, anything.

How in the world do you get Tweet@rama to work?? I cant figure out how to login. I can pull up the app's menu and click "login" but nothing happens.

 

[loco365]

Well, I found a neat little feature. Let's say you have Tweet@rama open. You need to constantly go to the side and scroll to it and call it forward. I found out how to split your screen between Windows Explorer and any Metro app. It'll look like so:

Spoiler

What you do is you go to the left side of the screen and pick your app, but you click and drag it out and it will split it. You can put the weather there, Twitter, anything.

How in the world do you get Tweet@rama to work?? I cant figure out how to login. I can pull up the app's menu and click "login" but nothing happens.

idk. I logged in and gave it permission to communicate with my Twitter account. I had no issues at all.

 

[SifJar]

Well, I found a neat little feature. Let's say you have Tweet@rama open. You need to constantly go to the side and scroll to it and call it forward. I found out how to split your screen between Windows Explorer and any Metro app. It'll look like so:

Spoiler

What you do is you go to the left side of the screen and pick your app, but you click and drag it out and it will split it. You can put the weather there, Twitter, anything.

This is quite a well known feature...I didn't realise it worked with non-Metro stuff, but Microsoft have shown this split screen thing multiple times.

 

[Diffusion]

Well, I found a neat little feature. Let's say you have Tweet@rama open. You need to constantly go to the side and scroll to it and call it forward. I found out how to split your screen between Windows Explorer and any Metro app. It'll look like so:

Spoiler

What you do is you go to the left side of the screen and pick your app, but you click and drag it out and it will split it. You can put the weather there, Twitter, anything.

This is quite a well known feature...I didn't realise it worked with non-Metro stuff, but Microsoft have shown this split screen thing multiple times.

Desktop Mode is considered an app. So it split screen just like any other Metro App.

 

[LightyKD]

Anybody have any apps that are not working for them?

 

[loco365]

Anybody have any apps that are not working for them?

For some reason, I tried using *'s in my Tweet and it wouldn't send it.

 

[chyyran]

I downloaded it, and it kept saying something about rebooting when installing on VMware

 

[SifJar]

Anybody have any apps that are not working for them?

For some reason, I tried using *'s in my Tweet and it wouldn't send it.

Pretty sure that's not what he meant. A small bug in an app isn't "not working". I would assume he may have meant older applications (e.g. Win 7 compatible apps) having compatibility issues with Windows 8.

 

[iFish]

So, last night I installed this on my old crappy laptop.

So, it wasn't the smoothest experince. Which is to be expected since it's so early. But having a shit laptop doesn't help.

I liked what I saw. But I didn't like how IE looked when launched from the Metro UI, it was just.. not what I'm used to for a full OS.

I also don't really like the "Ribbon"(What Offica and Pain use) UI being used for Windows Explorer. But I guess it all takes getting used to.

Also, I'm not sure the issue here, but i think it may be drivers, but my screen looks totally shit now. But i am assuming it's a bug(or a feature!).

Either way, I like what I saw for the little time I spent with it.

 

[Dangy]

So, last night I installed this on my old crappy laptop.

So, it wasn't the smoothest experince. Which is to be expected since it's so early. But having a shit laptop doesn't help.

I liked what I saw. But I didn't like how IE looked when launched from the Metro UI, it was just.. not what I'm used to for a full OS.

I also don't really like the "Ribbon"(What Offica and Pain use) UI being used for Windows Explorer. But I guess it all takes getting used to.

Also, I'm not sure the issue here, but i think it may be drivers, but my screen looks totally shit now. But i am assuming it's a bug(or a feature!).

Either way, I like what I saw for the little time I spent with it.

You do know this is a product of Microsoft, right?

 

[Mantis41]

Absolutely bloody horrible. It might make sense on a tablet, pad or smart phone.