Switched On: An Office outside the Metro

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. The two worlds of Windows 8 - one: a traditional desktop UI and the other: the touch-optimized Metro UI - can, at first, seem so different that they contrast like the multiple personalities of Batman's enemy Two-Face. Yet, despite the different appearances, the forthcoming version of Microsoft's venerable operating system is not about absolutes, but optimizations. Like the yin-yang symbol, each half of the circle embraces some of its opposite.

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