Google joins Windows 8 browser war with plans for Metro Chrome - Polidicks

Metro could be much better on non-touchscreen computers if they bothered to add context menus and controls centralized around the mouse cursor rather than the edges of the screen. I mean, the interface makes sense for a touch screen I suppose, but when you're using a mouse, it just take way more effort to do some simple stuff (mostly due to lack of context menus in metro environment and the general lack non-touch alternatives [in that, many of the features designed to be effect with touch don't have alternatives designed to be effective with a mouse]). Anyway, this is good news, even if it may never effect me, it's good to know people will have plenty of options when it comes to web browsing in Metro.

[QUOTE=Panda X;35125265]C, C++, C#, VB.NET. [IMG]http://wildermuth.com/images/apps_2.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] oh my god Microsoft they are PROGRAMS APPS are for a phone PROGRAMS run on a computer i can't be the only one who is sick of hearing the word "app" slowly start to crawl into desktop computer terminology

[QUOTE=DChapsfield;35137037]oh my god Microsoft they are PROGRAMS APPS are for a phone PROGRAMS run on a computer i can't be the only one who is sick of hearing the word "app" slowly start to crawl into desktop computer terminology[/QUOTE] App is short for APPLICATION which was used to describe computer programs long before smart phones were around.

[QUOTE=DChapsfield;35137037]oh my god Microsoft they are PROGRAMS APPS are for a phone PROGRAMS run on a computer i can't be the only one who is sick of hearing the word "app" slowly start to crawl into desktop computer terminology[/QUOTE] They are synonyms. Applications are Programs. Though I do agree that "apps" is now just a buzzword and rather annoying.

Awesome. I can't wait to see what Google does with Metro. [editline]14th March 2012[/editline] If they do anything different anyway.

[QUOTE=DChapsfield;35137037]oh my god Microsoft they are PROGRAMS APPS are for a phone PROGRAMS run on a computer i can't be the only one who is sick of hearing the word "app" slowly start to crawl into desktop computer terminology[/QUOTE] It's a buzzword.

[QUOTE=Panda X;35140227]They are synonyms. Applications are Programs. Though I do agree that "apps" is now just a buzzword and rather annoying.[/QUOTE] We should create our ~own~ buzzword to push apps out of the window. "Hey Stephen, did you check out this hilarious fart prog I just installed on my computer?"