Ed Bott - Windows 10 Support Secrets

7 CHAPTER 1 | Getting started with Windows 10 Figure 1-6: Type a term in the search box to find matching apps, games, music, and movies, or choose one of the options from the menu bar to browse by category. In my experience, many longtime Windows users are likely to be skeptical of Store apps, believing that they’re not capable of offering the same productivity as desktop programs. That’s especially true for anyone who briefly tried the first generation of apps for Windows 8 and was underwhelmed. Windows 10 includes a wide assortment of UWP apps: Mail and Calendar, Photos, News, and Weather, for example, as well as Groove Music and Movies & TV, both of which I cover in Chapter 4. Figure 1-7 shows the Photos app in action. Normally, the left edge of the app shows only a column of icons, but clicking the so-called “hamburger” button—the three horizontal lines in the upper-left corner—expands that column to show labels and other settings. This option is common in UWP apps.