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by iforgotpassword 2403 days ago
And it's insanely idiotic. In the mobile world we have this due to a vastly different UX, and traditionally very limited resources. Remember the first iPhone didn't allow more than one app running. Today phones have fast CPUs and plenty of RAM, it's mostly about not draining the battery. None of these constraints apply to the desktop. Even on laptops power consumption is much less of a concern, unless you have some program going berserk spinning on 100% CPU.

So trying to bring this same concept to the desktop is insanely idiotic. Microsoft failed miserably by making Windows 8 a phone OS and then bringing it to the desktop with minimal changes. Windows 10 improved so much by actually focusing on the desktop again. Including such no-brainers as allowing store apps to run windowed. I'm not a Windows user anymore myself, but none of my friends who still have it as their daily driver like or use apps.