Honestly, I have had the exact opposite experience

I find using Windows 8 Modern Apps for things such as checking the weather, reading news and email to be much easier rather than using a full fledged application or a kind of disjointed browser widget

It uses a technology called GPU Computing. Instead of doing number crunching purely using the CPU, some tasks can be offloaded to the GPU, since GPUs themselves are nothing more than highly specialized processors. Thus when doing computer intensive task, the CPU runs the main code and offloads computer intensive tasks…