![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Windows 8 and the Registry. During an audience Q & A on the Windows Weekly podcast on Friday, someone asked me about Windows 8 and the Registry, and why Microsoft didn't simply get rid of the Registry in this release. I explained that Microsoft couldn't get rid of the Registry because it was required by . The theory here being that Metro- style apps were truly . This would be a wonderful future world if it were true. Sadly, it is not. Tipped off by Gavin R. ![]() In it, Microsoft's Matt Merry explains that, sadly, the Registry isn't just alive and well in Windows 8; it's still a core technology behind Windows 8 and its new, Metro- style apps. Cue overly- loud sighing sounds. He then demonstrates where you can go to find Windows 8 app registrations in the Registry: In HKEY. If you're curious exactly where these things are, they're in: HKEY. Everything new in Windows 8 uses the Registry. This includes the OS itself, and new OS features like contracts. As Merry notes, . There is an extension registration and there is a class registration. Apps implement contracts: The search contract, the share contract, the Play. To contract. Those contract registrations are extension registrations to the operating system. And believe it or not, when you click on the tile for an app, that's just another contract activation. That's the Windows. Launch contract. These include: Background Tasks, File, File Picker, Launch, Protocol, Search, and Share. If you have Windows 8 or 8.1, but prefer the look and feel of Windows 7, you can get the new OS to look and act a lot like the old one. Get certified for Microsoft technology and products. Explore our online developer & computer courses and exams, and take your career to a new level. Today, we want to share with you another big thing that you will first see in the developer channel for Opera for computers. We are the first major browser maker to. InformationWeek.com connects the business technology community. Award-winning news and analysis for enterprise IT. Expanding the Windows. Launch key, and then Package. Id, Merry uncovers a slew of messy keys representing the Metro- style apps installed on his Developer Preview PC. And it's a disaster, just like in today's Windows versions. This says to me that true drag and drop install and uninstall will not be possible in Windows 8, as it is in Mac OS X. I know that install/uninstall is not difficult, and in fact one might argue that drag and drop makes no sense in an OS that is deemphasizing the file system anyway. Fair enough. But true app isolation, to me, means that these things are in fact self- contained.
![]() And that doesn't appear to be the case. I could go on, but you get the idea: For all the newness of the Windows 8 runtime engine, Win. RT, and the new Metro- style apps, Windows 8 still very much uses and relies on a legacy construct, the Registry, which shows no signs of being obsoleted anytime soon. And while I expect that Microsoft will someday write a very long blog post explaining why using the Registry isn't just OK but preferable, I am surprised by this information. Clearly it requires some research. ![]() ![]()
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