The future Microsoft operating system, Windows 10, is designed to run on a range of devices, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops, game consoles and even on the last virtual reality device of the company, the HoloLens.
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While Windows will look a little different on smartphones or Xbox consoles, each version will have a common core, including libraries and runtime environments. As highlights The Verge, Microsoft states that "Windows applications" ( Windows apps ) will be able to run on any device running any version of Windows 10 .
Does this mean you'll be able to play StarCraft or run Office 2013 on your smartphone? Not really. These are part of the "Windows desktop applications" ( Windows desktop apps ).
Microsoft uses the term "Windows apps" to describe all the applications that are designed to work across the full range of Windows 10 previously listed devices. These are the applications that we know far as the "Universal Windows Apps" , or "universal Windows application" using common APIs available in the extended family of products in Windows 10.
However, if you use Photoshop, LibreOffice, VLC and thousands of other Windows applications, you have to get used to a new name: Windows desktop apps. This is the term used to describe Microsoft applications designed to run on traditional PC you use with a keyboard and a mouse (including laptops and desktops).
If on the one hand, it'll be nice to have a new naming scheme in place so we can stop to refer to the Windows Store applications with Metro or Modern UI interface, on the other hand, the new agreement could be confusing. If you refer to an application that you use on Windows computers over the past 20 years as "Windows apps", it may take some time to start considering them as "Windows desktop apps."
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While Windows will look a little different on smartphones or Xbox consoles, each version will have a common core, including libraries and runtime environments. As highlights The Verge, Microsoft states that "Windows applications" ( Windows apps ) will be able to run on any device running any version of Windows 10 .
Does this mean you'll be able to play StarCraft or run Office 2013 on your smartphone? Not really. These are part of the "Windows desktop applications" ( Windows desktop apps ).
However, if you use Photoshop, LibreOffice, VLC and thousands of other Windows applications, you have to get used to a new name: Windows desktop apps. This is the term used to describe Microsoft applications designed to run on traditional PC you use with a keyboard and a mouse (including laptops and desktops).
If on the one hand, it'll be nice to have a new naming scheme in place so we can stop to refer to the Windows Store applications with Metro or Modern UI interface, on the other hand, the new agreement could be confusing. If you refer to an application that you use on Windows computers over the past 20 years as "Windows apps", it may take some time to start considering them as "Windows desktop apps."