Chapter 3: Sharing Among Tiled Apps
In This Chapter
Sharing with the Share charm
Working through a share
Knowing what can be shared
Controlling which tiled apps are allowed to share
The tiled Metro side of Windows doesn’t have much of a Clipboard — and no drag ’n’ drop.
If you’ve used Windows before, that statement should stop you dead in your tracks. The Windows Clipboard — which works just fine on the old-fashioned desktop side of Windows 8.1 — is the primary means for moving data around. You can copy just about anything to the Clipboard and then paste it just about anywhere: Text can go from a browser to a Word document; numbers can go from an e-mail to a spreadsheet; pictures can be copied and pasted into different folders — or into documents, messages, spreadsheets, or even different pictures.
Old-fashioned desktop select-and-drag works, too, in many situations, but in every version of Windows since the primordial ooze, the Clipboard has always done the lion’s share of the work. ...
