{"id":648856,"date":"2013-03-26T10:19:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T14:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=397482"},"modified":"2013-03-26T10:19:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T14:19:51","slug":"leaked-windows-blue-build-points-to-desktop-mode-being-eased-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/648856","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Windows Blue build points to desktop mode being \u2018eased out\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/26\/windows-blue-desktop-mode-397482\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"540\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/windows-blue-1.jpg?w=650&amp;h=540&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Windows Blue Desktop Mode\" title=\"Windows Blue\" \/><\/a><\/center>One comfort for <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows-8\">Windows 8<\/a> users has been the ability to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/12\/06\/windows-8-criticism-android-ios\/\">switch out from the tiled interface<\/a> to the standard desktop mode, but the recently <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/25\/windows-blue-leaked-screenshots-396284\/\">leaked build of Windows Blue<\/a> shows that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>) may be phasing out that security blanket in the future as well. <a href=\"http:\/\/winsupersite.com\/windows-8\/virtual-hands-windows-8-blue-build-9364\">Paul Thurrott&#8217;s <em>Windows Super Site<\/em><\/a> has found that the Windows Blue build adds &#8220;a\u00a0<em>ton\u00a0<\/em>of new settings&#8221; to its PC settings tile &#8220;that were previously only available in the desktop-based Control Panel interface.&#8221; Thurrott says that by moving desktop functionalities to the tiled interface, Microsoft is gradually trying to nudge users away from desktop mode and thus pave the way for a Windows 9 operating system that &#8220;potentially&#8221; comes with no desktop mode intact.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/xq0F_eUpXLk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One comfort for Windows 8 users has been the ability to switch out from the tiled interface to the standard desktop mode, but the recently leaked build of Windows Blue shows that Microsoft (MSFT) may be phasing out that security blanket in the future as well. Paul Thurrott&#8217;s Windows Super Site has found that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}