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5. Exploring Windows 8 Apps > Working with Apps
Working with Apps
One of the things I found most interesting when I started working with Windows 8 was that—even though I loved the new look—I wasn’t sure where the windows had gone! When you launch an app, it zooms to take up your full screen (even though you can tile the display to show more than one app, as you’ll learn in this section).
Similarly, even Internet Explorer 10 now runs in what developers are calling a modeless window, which means you don’t have any of the familiar window borders around the edge of the screen. Times, they are a-changing!
Remember that you can cycle through open programs by pressing Alt+Tab. A small message box appears in the center of the desktop area showing you all your current open programs. Each time you press Tab while holding Alt, Windows 8 moves to the next open program available on your computer.