Metro Interface

Hello!
I've installed Microsoft Techical Preview (Windows 10) on my notebook today, and I'm liking it.
By I can't find where I can enable the Metro Interface on this release.
It was released? The Metro UI is enabled on this release?
Thank you!
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It's supposed to represent a return to serious computing.
Clearly Microsoft needs to create two different systems.
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Appv 4.6 SP3 and the Metro Interface.

Hello forum,
I am about to deploy App-V 4.6 SP3 clients to Windows 8.1 workstations. I am unable for commercial and logistical reasons to trade up to App-V 5.
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My specific problems with Lenovo were.
Their description of how to use the operating system was buried as an option under "Lenovo /Companion". They should have come up automatically as part of the initial boot up proceedure.
When I found the "How to DO windows 8" screen, it said click the "Learn More" button. There was no "LEARN MORE BUTTON". Instead I happend to notice a small grey line was a hot spot. The button did not display for some reason. Don't they test these things.
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Is there a way to get a build with 'the interface formerly known as Metro' without having to build from source myself? Or are the features there, and I'm simply derping hardcore?
Any help would be appreciated.

hello Axiomatic, development on the ui formerly known as metro has been ceased by mozilla due to low user interest unfortunately:
https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/03/14/metro/
the code may live on in certain code repositories but there are no current test builds making use of it...

Setting H264 ICodec properties in Metro (Modern) interface through an IMFMediaSink/IMFStreamSink pair.

Hello,
I'm trying to set some properties (CODECAPI_AVEncCommonRateControlMode and CODECAPI_AVEncCommonQuality), but I'm not sure how to do it. I tried to set them through the media type, but they seem to get ignored by the system (I tried with 1 and 100 of
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ac 2b 40 3c 01 13 f2 e0 22 00 00 03 00 02 00 00 03 00 78 1b 41 10 8d 40 00 00 00 01 68 ce 3c 30 ;MF_MT_MAJOR_TYPE=MEDIATYPE_Video;MF_MT_MPEG2_PROFILE=100;MF_MT_FRAME_RATE=128849018881 (30,1);MF_MT_PIXEL_ASPECT_RATIO=4294967297 (1,1);MF_MT_INTERLACE_MODE=2;MF_MT_SUBTYPE=MEDIASUBTYPE_H264;{FCBF57A3-7EA5-4B0C-9644-69B40C39C391}=1
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This is the output captured by mftrace. What am I doing wrong? What is the correct way to set these properties (that are marked as compatible with the Metro interface)
Thank you!

Hello James,
Let's go with an example.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd317841(v=vs.85).aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd317842(v=vs.85).aspx
I want to be able to set these two properties in my MediaEncodingProfile in order to switch from a bitrate based encoding to a quality based encoding. Both properties are marked in the documentation as compatible with Windows Store Apps so they should work
right?
Following your example I set them in the video MediaPropertySet as
MediaPropertySet^ set = mediaEncodingProperties->Properties;
set->Insert(CODECAPI_AVEncCommonRateControlMode, (int)eAVEncCommonRateControlMode_Quality);
set->Insert(CODECAPI_AVEncCommonQuality, 1);
Quality 1 because I want to be sure that they're working. The default is 70 so the quality should be really low and visible.
Then I call (as usual)
mediaCapture.StartRecordToCustomSinkAsync(encodingProfile, mfExtension);
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Thank you,
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Metro-only user interface

Hello
I'm an embedded developer (well the target devices are embedded, not me ;o) and discovered that Windows 8.1 and later versions might be interesting as an OS for developing home automation touchscreen devices.
Will there be a Windows version with only the Metro interface (without the regular desktop) like used on tablets and phones?
Or can it be stripped down to a Metro-only version after installation?
thanks in advance
richard

Hi,
I'm afraid that it's impossible to completely disable the classic desktop, what we can do is booting directly to Start Screen and removing the "Desktop" tile, but user can still easily restore it back or just click "Windows" logo to switch
to desktop, it's the design for Windows 8.1.
For more issue about development, I think the MSDN forum can provide more help.
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?category=embeddedwindows
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I recently updated to the Firefox beta option so I could use the Metro interface, but it seems as though Firefox automatically updated and removed this option. Is there a way to still use this option? or revert back to an old version? It it very difficult to use a desktop environment on a tablet, and since using that Metro interface that's all I used.

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Adobe Air for win8 metro apps

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I might be a little early with the question, but actually its something which will bug us all at some point.
Windows 8 METRO apps.
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I haven't heard any more than you Bart, but I'll +1 this for some answers!

Tweak Windows 8 with the 'Metro UI Tweaker for Windows 8'

Quite a few of you have been asking about apps that allow you to tweak Windows 8. Let me introduce you to my favorite - Metro UI Tweaker for Windows 8.
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If you traded in your mac mini for a windows pc, what would you get?

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I moved away from Apple in 2007 and have never looked back !
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I haven’t seen anything posted yet so I thought I’d let anyone who is curious know: Yes, you can upgrade your DV6000 to Windows 8. I did mine a couple of days ago and it seems to be running fine so far. The procedure described in the thread General Windows 7 Upgrade Guide for HP Laptops for Level 3 notebooks pretty much works for Windows 8, but with even less work.
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Great post CliffPre,
Thank you for taking the time to share this information.
Before an upgrade, one can also run the Upgrade Assistant software, which will scan your PC and generate a report on what is currently installed on your PC is compatible with W8.
http://goo.gl/z8LVf
More than likely HP is not going to support hardware for W8 on any system purchased before Oct 1st 2011.
Here's another extensive document that provides some valid information on upgrading to Windows 8 http://goo.gl/CO6uV
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Is there a way to create a "common desktop" for all RD/TS 2012 users? (Office 2010 icons on the dekstop, for example.)

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Hi,
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/3f178a0e-128e-4f4f-870a-90c8bbf1afeb/customize-the-default-local-user-profile-in-windows-server-2012?forum=winserver8gen
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