On Two UI’s in one OS…

As Microsoft took away the traditional Start menu from the legacy desktop, a click on the new Start button now inevitably invokes the Metro-styled Start screen. Run an app there, though, and you won’t find it running on the legacy desktop – and vice versa. Thanks to this, for example, you may start Internet Explorer on the desktop and then find that the instance of IE running under the Metro UI doesn’t talk to the other one, so that none of your tabs are transferred between the two. Try to explain that to your grandparents when they get a PC with Windows 8 preloaded.

via SiliconFilter

Happy Sysadmin Day! :)

P.S, thanks to Tom Merrit for the reminder, does a great job at Tech News Today.

In Gnome-3 you can Alt - Tab as normal through active applications.
But you can also Alt-~ to cycle through only active application windows.
For instance, firefox usually has two windows open for me, the browser window, and the download window.