Chapter 9. Integrating with the Windows 8 environment
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
—Blaise Pascal
Operating systems owe their acceptance and circulation mostly to successful applications. There are many ways to measure the success of an application. From the viewpoint of users, though, a successful application is often simply an application that allows the user to perform a common task in a seamless and comfortable way.
Consider a basic application that needs to save some text to a disk file. The primary goal of the application is getting and then saving the text. However, to save the text users probably need to choose a file name and a location on disk. These are ancillary tasks; necessary for the sake of the application ...
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