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>> a desktop e-mail client such as Outlook can't be used as a share target

So basically Metro apps can only share with Metro apps? So a Metro Outlook can be shared with.

Yep. Not only can you not share to desktop apps, you can't share from desktop apps, though they still have the Charm on the side for it. So you get this wonderful little flyout:

http://i.imgur.com/THJHM.png

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Reminds me of what happened when you dragged something to an open application in the taskbar in WinXP (and maybe later versions too).

You got a message saying, essentially, "the computer knows what you want to do but refuses to do it for you".

It's borderline insultingly user-hostile.

Yes. Kind of sad, because I think these "contracts" are an awesome idea, and I don't like them being artificially limited like that.

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