Or you can render a video in Windows in the background while checking on your social networks on Android.

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Like the new Windows 8 app, it runs in the background, delivering push notifications even when you're looking at something else.

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The blue square represents Windows (neutral, cool, in the background of everything like the sky in the XP homescreen.) The red square represents Office (active, constructive, hot like overheated brain activity.).

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For example, a floating windows user could monitor a stock ticker in a background window while working on a report in the foreground.

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The panel quality is especially noticeable when you view the Windows 8 Start Screen: tiles pop out in true, bright hues against the vibrant background.

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Here's a little background on Just Mobile: the company started off as a PDA (mainly Windows Mobile) accessory OEM in around 2005, with Huang taking care of procurement plus manufacturing, and his talkative friend Gustafsson, an ex-banker, overlooking European sales.

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