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<blockquote data-quote="Lotsofjazz" data-source="post: 931572" data-attributes="member: 64243"><p>Tourettes wrote:</p><p></p><p> </p><p>Ho ho, not so quick.. here you speak for yourself only...Because I do everything on my HTPC!, write emails, surf the internet, facebook, twitter, check this and many other forums, using office applications etc.. and watching live TV and movies via MP..At least Chrome is running , and sometimes an office application the same time as Mediaportal.. I use Alt Tab to switch between them.</p><p> </p><p>While watching TV I often use the commercials to check on my email and social apps.. All from the comfort of my lazy chair, with a lighted Logitech wireless keyboard (grrreat that the keys light up in a rather dark living room) a Microsoft remote and a Logitech wireless optical trackbal.. But I must say I am single, so I do not have to bother about other people in the house.</p><p> </p><p>BTW that claim above from the article is plain wrong! Individual "legacy" Apps do show up in task bar and in Task switching (Alt-Tab) .. I use it everyday! and are NOT running 'within' the Desktop App (that is true, Desktop IS an app, which can be closed using dragging from the top to the bottom, like in Metro.. but when doing that Apps started from the Desktop keep running (like Mediaportal))</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lotsofjazz, post: 931572, member: 64243"] Tourettes wrote: Ho ho, not so quick.. here you speak for yourself only...Because I do everything on my HTPC!, write emails, surf the internet, facebook, twitter, check this and many other forums, using office applications etc.. and watching live TV and movies via MP..At least Chrome is running , and sometimes an office application the same time as Mediaportal.. I use Alt Tab to switch between them. While watching TV I often use the commercials to check on my email and social apps.. All from the comfort of my lazy chair, with a lighted Logitech wireless keyboard (grrreat that the keys light up in a rather dark living room) a Microsoft remote and a Logitech wireless optical trackbal.. But I must say I am single, so I do not have to bother about other people in the house. BTW that claim above from the article is plain wrong! Individual "legacy" Apps do show up in task bar and in Task switching (Alt-Tab) .. I use it everyday! and are NOT running 'within' the Desktop App (that is true, Desktop IS an app, which can be closed using dragging from the top to the bottom, like in Metro.. but when doing that Apps started from the Desktop keep running (like Mediaportal)) [/QUOTE]
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