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menus. They have overlapping windows. They can create, open,

and close documents.

UP TO SPEED THE DAWN OF THE UNIVERSAL
APP

It’s no secret that Windows 10 is an ambitious undertaking for
Microsoft. Variations of this same operating system run on
laptops, desktops, tablets, and phones.

Clearly, the similarity of Windows on all these machines offers
a big payoff for you: You have a lot less to learn. Everything
looks, feels, and works the same, no matter what the device.

(Take that, iPhone and Mac owners!)

But Microsoft intends to pull off an even more dramatic stunt:
It wants to usher in an era when these different devices not

only run the same OS, but even the same apps! You buy an app
once, and run it on your laptop, phone, and tablet.

Of course, software companies have to create apps that work

this way—what Microsoft calls Universal Windows Apps
(UWAs). To show other software companies the way,
Microsoft has written a bunch of UWAs already, including

Calendar, Mail, People, Photos, OneNote, Movies & TV,
News, Money, and Weather.

It’s an attractive idea, this Universal thing. It’s not likely that

the creators of all 4 million existing PC apps will rework their
products to run identically on all different kinds of screens.
And, as you may know, Windows Phone is no more.

But still—the idea is delicious.

Microsoft Store apps. These apps ran in TileWorld, the Windows
8 edge-to-edge touchscreen environment designed for tablets. They
were an all-new class of programs that looked and acted very