I want to make my app work across all win8 form factors and I'm fine with touch-first/metro as a paradigm. But I'm concerned how my app will work on desktop environments where desktop apps are the norm. Can someone see my metro app on the screen next to multiple desktop apps? What I really fear is that I will have to write 2 separate apps, one for metro and one for desktop. It seems I won't be able to combine the formats into one executable that auto selects (or even offers the user an option) to run as metro or desktop. How does task manager really work? I understand that non-visible metro apps are suspended. What about desktop apps? Do they get suspended when metro apps are running? Are there 2 different task managers? One for metro, one for desktop? Is win8 a seamless experience from touchpad to desktop? It seems desktop apps on the touchpad will be second class... as they should be. But it seems metro will be second class on my desktop... which shouldn't be the case. Maybe this is why Hyper-v is avail on win8 client. I can run Win8 as a vm on my Win8 pc. I'll run metro stuff in the vm and desktop stuff on the host.

modified on Friday, September 16, 2011 9:35 AM