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This is correct and very common knowledge. However traditional apps can be linked from the store and regularly are already so no one is missing out.

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How do you do that? So can still install the software you want on windows 8 or you need to go through store each time?

You can continue to install your things just the way you did in previous Windows versions.

Exactly that.

I'm genuinely surprised at some of the things people haven't quite grasped about Windows 8. To put it simply:

Windows 8 is the same as Windows 7 but it has a new interface layer (Metro) which replaces the start menu and adds an app store for Metro and normal apps. Everything you did in Windows 7 is just the same bar the start button.

Thanks, This is what I thought in may when I read about windows 8. But I feared I got everything wrong and actually every single app or soctware must go though the store and be controlled by MS , as if it were an Iphone. By the way we are developing an app that will be downloaded from our web. Now going to the store would be a trouble to us...

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