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World of the strange: There will be NINE KINDS of Windows 10

Paul Shirley

Re: @dogged

"If MS had removed the "theming code", Start 8 could not exist."

They didn't remove all of it, just the bits Metro didn't need and the code to read many preferences. In prerelease builds much of it was just a regedit away from resurrection, then they excised the code they didn't want anyone using.

Through subclassing pretty much anything can manipulate the UI. Having to install a 3rd party theming driver to actually do that is a security hole waiting to be exploited.

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