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Figure 6-1. In Windows 10, desktop programs (like Word, left) and tablet-style Microsoft

Store apps (like Maps, right) can coexist on the same screen at the same time.

At worst, you’ll notice how weird it is that some programs seem to have a very different
design philosophy from others. But you’ll never have to wonder why they work differently

or live in totally different places.

They are listed as equals in the same “layer” of the app

switcher (read on). There are no longer two different working
worlds—one for desktop programs, one for Microsoft Store apps.

A few differences remain, though. Microsoft Store apps are vastly superior
in ease of installation (there’s no installer to download), security and
decency (Microsoft screens everything for viruses and pornography),

updating (it’s all automatic and effortless), and removal (you just click
Uninstall in the Start menu; see Figure 6-15).