[smacktoward]

All third-party RT apps have to be Metro-style. Microsoft granted themselves an exception to that rule for Office RT and IE.

[contextfree]

More precisely, the exception is for preinstalled apps.

[ygra]

So 3rd-party vendors of WinRT tablets could bundle a bunch of crap in Desktop mode again?

[anonymfus]

No. He mean system tools like Task Manager, File Explorer, Power Shell and apps like Notepad, Paint and Calc.