We all hope that Windows 10 will break the issue, since so far the perception on Windows 10 is quite good and welcoming. Also to add since the perception of users that those apps are only for touch, and few people have Windows 8.X tablets. Since the adoption of Windows 8.X isn't that great, and even most of its userbase doesn't know how to use Modern apps and what to do with Windows Store, you got a problem of low userbase of actually using apps, even though most casual users are actually will be fine with those apps (Power users like us obviously will not be satisfied with many of the Modern Apps). The issue is that Windows 8.X didn't get good reception which affects Metro/Universal apps development and the Windows Store, the two essential things needed to succeed. I can see your point and its indeed a problem as of now and even next year. Well we have yet to see if Windows 10 within next year or two will able to improve its app ecosystem status. The Settings user interface has been simplified during the process.

We're giving you more control like the ability to change the default home page, user rich animations in the app, etc. It's still a work in progress and we would like to hear your feedback. We also use TagLib to get the metadatas of your videos, as requested by our users.''We rewrote the Search engine from scratch and it should be faster. Videos should resume where you left (was working with low success score on the previous version).

There's a new option 'Add to current playlist', to add an album or a track the playlist you're currently playing. We get the metadata from TagLib, which are more precise, and we know the difference between Artist and AlbumArtist. We added some pretty animations, and also a beta version of a Win2D component (thanks for the move to MIT license!) for the background slideshow.

It's also faster on the low-end devices like a Surface RT and Lumia 520,620. 'The UI has been updated to match the new Windows 10 style.

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