News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Under the hood of Windows 8, or why desktop users should upgrade from Windows 7. Parent comment

Re:Under the hood of Windows 8, or why desktop users should ... by hnriot on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @01:48PM (#4689234)
You are glossing over all the non-metro reasons like the security and performance.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Under the hood of Windows 8, or why desktop users should ... by jiggy2011 on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @03:51PM (#4690037)
Is there a performance benefit to running metro apps over desktop apps?

The security comes from the sandboxing model rather than the UI.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Under the hood of Windows 8, or why desktop users should ... by SkyMarshal on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @06:12PM (#4690619)
He was probably referring to work on power saving and system resource efficiency. Apparently Windows 8 uses less hardware resources than Windows 7, according to article.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Under the hood of Windows 8, or why desktop users should ... by jiggy2011 on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @06:37PM (#4690710)
True, not really much to do with Metro though.
[ Parent | on HN ]