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There will be two completely different concepts of the PC application in the next version of Windows, which we can probably expect to be generally released by the fall of next year. The "Desktop application" will continue to follow the usage model with which we've been generally familiar since Windows 95, and whose evolution up to now has been incremental and followable.

Then there is something called the "Metro app." Today we know more about what a Metro app is. As for what it does, that remains an open book, though perhaps not for very long. Most of the Build 2011 conference here in Anaheim will be devoted to explaining the Metro app, and we'll need every word of it. We're now seeing the initial foundation of a completely new Microsoft ecosystem that is not around Windows applications, .NET applications, or Windows Phone apps.

The new browser-bookmarking service, iterasi, which we covered back in February of this year, has just launched their public beta today. This service is meant to complement, not compete with, today's standard lot of bookmarking tools, like del.ici.ous, ma.gnolia, and diigo, as iterasi doesn't simply save a URL, but instead provides you with a way to bookmark the "dynamic web."