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<\/p>\nSo, it looks like we get two operating systems for the price of one. It has two styles of apps: one more suitable for a phone (a.k.a. “Metro” style) and the other suitable for desktop. Metro apps are always full screen, they cannot be closed and do not support right click.<\/p>\n
The whole experience is completely schizophrenic: there are two main desktops, two versions of Internet Explorer, etc. Interestingly enough, two Internet Explorers report slightly different user agent strings to the web servers:<\/p>\n
Metro:<\/b>
\nMozilla\/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64; Trident\/6.0)<\/p>\n
Desktop:<\/b>
\nMozilla\/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; Trident\/6.0)<\/p>\n
It looks like the old explorer is a 32 bit process, while the new one is 64 bit.<\/p>\n
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The old one is in But, as A.S. Pushkin used to say, “You cannot hitch a trembling doe And horse up to a single carriage<\/i>“. And I am afraid Microsoft is trying to do just that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Internet Explorer<\/code>, the new one in C:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer<\/code>, they have slightly different file sizes, but the same version number (10.00.8102.0). The last part is totally uncool: number one rule for versioning is that if two released files are different, they must have different version numbers, or you are asking for a maintenance nightmare. Well, this is still an evaluation version…<\/p>\n