Hi
I was surprised when I awakened my computer and saw the expanded window.
I had never opened it up, just used it in the compacted form.
Right after I posted I went back to look at it again and realized what the button in the upper right was for.
In the expanded version it looks kind of like a British flag.
It is the right compromise for the two factions of those who like the Metro interface and those who like the Windows 7 interface.
Personally I would like an option to run the Windows XP interface with the fly out menu pages where you can see everything but I'm not going to install Classic Shell to get that.
I use Rocket Dock which makes it very easy to get to all the stuff I use regularly.
I just set up the mail app to open my Gmail account, and I like the interface, it's really pretty nice.
And I'm assuming that this will allow me to get Cortana to handle my mail when every thing is up and running.
Mike