- Mar 15, 2011
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One of the most confusing things I experienced in recent time was to understand how Microsoft called applications installed from Windows Store and the Start Screen interface officially.
So many names were floating around that it seemed that even Microsoft was not sure how to name apps or the new interface.
It all started with Metro apps for instance but Microsoft could not use that term and switched to others as a consequence. Problem here was that the company used several terms instead, for instance Windows Store Apps or Modern UI Apps which was highly confusing.
To make matters worse, desktop apps, that is regular programs not installed from the store and only compatible with PCs, were sometimes referred to as apps as well.
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