Windows 8.1 is getting real improvements over Windows 8, some of which will please longtime users who found the shift from Windows 7 jarring or uncomfortable. And yet it also goes even farther in the new direction Microsoft is taking.
The update, which Microsoft is showing off in a preview on 30 May, remains touch-forward, while making more concessions to keyboard and mouse users. It's designed to work better on smaller screens, and large desktop displays as well. It makes much greater use of features like Search and SkyDrive, and tries even harder to be a truly internet-driven platform. But it also makes getting to your installed apps easier, and swapping from the desktop to the Start screen a more grounded experience. The Start button is back (sort of) but there's no Start Menu.
By: Mathew Honan, Edited by: Kadhim Shubber
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/30/windows-8-1-preview
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