Windows 8–Why you don’t close a Metro Style application

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:33:17 +0000

One of the first things I noticed when playing with the Windows 8 preview build was that you can’t close metro style applications. Almost instinctively I pressed the Alt+F4 keys when I wanted to close a running application but nothing happened, I then tried to find an option within the application to close it but couldn’t find an exit button there neither.

Well after some reading and watching the Fundamentals of Metro style apps: how and when your app will run presentation things became clear. You don’t close a metro style application.

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Windows 8–Why you don’t close a Metro Style application