microsoft windows 8.1 preview
Microsoft windows 8.1
Microsoft’s first grave upgrade to the windows 8 desktop operating system, it has been code named as windows Blue. The opening of windows 8.1 will mark a change in strategy for Microsoft. In lieu of releasing new editions of Windows after lengthy development cycles, moving towards Redmond is expected to refresh its OS on an annual basis. Windows 8.1 will offer much more than a traditional "Service Pack", making it comparable to Apple's annual OS X updates.
Microsoft already has posted a blog post by confirming a number of features which will appear Windows 8.1 Lockscreen.
Microsoft already has given the facility to their users to set a picture password. With Windows 8.1, this feature will be expanded so the lockscreen can be turned into a picture frame by pulling images from local storage or SkyDrive galleries. The users will have an extra facility to take picture without having log into the device.
Probable release date-------------------------
A public preview is going to be made available to users on the 26th June to coincide with Microsoft's Build event. The RTM is expected to follow in autumn. Speaking at the Wired Business Conference on May 7, Julie Larson-Green corporate vice-president for Windows, revealed that a public preview of Windows Blue will be made available on 24 June.
Improvement of windows 8 to windows 8.1
What else is on tap for Windows 8.1 (previously known as Windows Blue)? Microsoft exhibited more personalization, including the option to turn your lock screen into a slideshow of stored photos, as well as choose from more colors and backgrounds. You can also take photos from the Start screen without having to log in.
Windows 8.1 will allow users to change the size of the tiles on the Start screen and make it easier to rename them. New apps also won't automatically be pinned to the Start screen; users can pick and choose which ones they want to see on that screen via "apps view." Microsoft also said that users were unexpectedly moving tiles around, so stepping forward, users will have to press and hold (or right click) to move them.
On the apps front, "we will be improving all our built-in apps that come with Windows 8 for Windows 8.1," Microsoft said. The Photos app includes new editing features, and the Music app got a complete makeover, for example.
"You can resize apps to any size you want, share the screen between two apps, or have up to three apps on each screen if you have ... multiple displays connected, you can have different Windows Store apps running on all the displays at the same time and the Start Screen can stay open on one monitor," Microsoft said. "This makes multi-tasking even easier. Also in Windows 8.1, you can have multiple windows of the same app snapped together – such as two Internet Explorer windows."
Windows 8.1, which will be get-at-able to customers in the next, includes so many new features as well as refinements to the user interface. One of the upgrades lets you use the same background for the desktop and the new user interface.
User Interface Improvement of windows 8.1
Start button: May be the returns of the start button are the biggest change, at least philosophically, is the return of the Start button in the desktop interface. Windows 8 unlikely killed off the Start button when it built the new operating system around the Start screen, which is basically a supercharged Start menu with a touch-first user interface. Users protested, though, and Microsoft has brought the button back in Windows 8.1, although it's simply a visual cue for how to get back to the Start screen.
In addition to the button, users will also be able to set the All Apps screen — which lists all apps installed on the PC — as the default instead of the Start screen, which may appeal to some people who miss the old pop-up Start menu.
Live Tile Sizes:
Windows 8.1 will give the facility to their users both an extra-small and extra-large size for live tiles The extra-large size is meant for apps that a user opens the most, or simply like to see more information on the tile. For example, the weather app will show more forecast data in the extra-large size, which takes up the same room as two large tiles.
Microsoft wishes power users will love the tiny live tile. It allows users to fit 4 app icons in the same range where there used to be just one. Since Windows 8 doesn't have "folders" for the Start screen, the extra-small tile is a decent substitute. Finally, Windows 8.1 will allow users to select and move multiple live tiles at once, and easily name groups.
No Longer Pin to Start: In Windows 8, apps automatically pined to the Start screen. In Windows 8.1, that will no longer occur, which will manually lead to a smug Start screen for most users? Microsoft said the self pinning often led to a swampy of downloaded-and-forgotten apps populating the center of many users' Start screens.
Apps Gesture: Going hand-in-hand with the "no pinning" change, there's now a fast way to see the All Apps screen — just swipe up. From there, it's easy to find an app and pin it with new sorting tools that let you list apps by name, category or most recently downloaded.
Auto Updates: No more manual app updates! With Windows 8.1, all your apps will simply update themselves in the middle of the night when downloads are available.
Boot to Desktop: In Windows 8.1, users will now be able to change settings to save them the single click they needed to perform in Windows 8 to take them to the desktop environment.
More Colors, More Textures: Whereas Windows 8 gave the user a very limited selection of color themes, Windows 8.1 allows a much wider variety of options. There are many more textures, too.
Desktop Background Image on Start: The Start screen in Windows 8.1 can now mirror the background image from the desktop environment, which should help reassure some users that the new UI isn't an alien world that's completely separate from the desktop.
Snap Upgrade:
Snap is what allows two apps to run on the screen at the same time, with one of the apps off to the side in a window that takes up 25% of the display. That percentage is much more flexible in Windows 8.1, letting peoples split the screen up any number of ways — 50/50, 60/40, 70/30, or anything in between.
Users can Snap more than two apps at the same time, too. There's technically no maximum number — it's only limited by the resolution of user’s display, since Microsoft doesn't need developers to support their apps in windows less than 500 pixels wide. For a high-res monitor, that could mean four or five apps running at one time.
Multi-Monitor Support: A new Settings app, with moves several functions from the desktop to the new user interface of windows 8.1, includes more function for multi-monitor setups and let users to set the resolution of secondary monitors manually if they like.
Reading List: In any app with content (including Internet Explorer), users will be able to save that content to a Reading List. It works with news apps like The New York Times and Microsoft's home-grown ones as well as web pages.
IE Improvements: IE in Windows 8.1 supports limitless tabs. Also, user’s open tabs will sync across devices, and users can make live tiles out of websites — real live tiles, with updating content — as long as the developer has included them.
Active Lock Screen: The lock screen supports an intelligent slide show that can do things like display photos from exactly a year ago. Users will also be able to take a Skype call without unlocking the device.
App Syncing Across Devices: When users log into a second Windows 8.1 device, the same apps you have on your first one will automatically download and sync. Similar to iOS, you'll be able to optimize individual apps and devices out of syncing.
SkyDrive Integration:
SkyDrive becomes the default for saving all documents. Any and all files stored in SkyDrive can be made accessible offline by mirroring the content to your PC.
Image Editing: The Photos app have primary photo editing in Windows 8.1.
New Microsoft Apps: Windows 8.1 brings new Microsoft apps including a Calculator, and Alarm, Food & Drink (which has a nifty hands-free recipe mode that lets you wave your hand to advance to the next step) and Health & Fitness (with a WebMD-esque symptom tracker).
Users new to Windows 8 will probably get a lot of use out of Help & Tips, which will help walk them through the finer details of the new windows 8.1.
Apps Enhancements: The Xbox-branded apps for Music, Video and Games all introduce new features that bring people to the content users interact with the most. News and Sports have similar enhancements, including customized sections and making stories and stats on user’s favorite teams more prominent.
Small-Screen SupportMicrosoft admits it missed the boat on small-screen tablets, which have exploded in the last two years. With Windows 8, a raft of technical issues stood in the way of manufacturers building Windows tablets in the 7- to 8-inch range.
Those issues have been introduced in Windows 8.1, paving the way for a new generation of Windows tablets to compete directly with the wishes of the iPad mini and Kindle Fire HD. One of the first such tablets, the Acer Iconia W3-810, leaked on Amazon a few weeks ago.
Image source : Microsoft.
Article source: mashable.com
Microsoft’s first grave upgrade to the windows 8 desktop operating system, it has been code named as windows Blue. The opening of windows 8.1 will mark a change in strategy for Microsoft. In lieu of releasing new editions of Windows after lengthy development cycles, moving towards Redmond is expected to refresh its OS on an annual basis. Windows 8.1 will offer much more than a traditional "Service Pack", making it comparable to Apple's annual OS X updates.
Microsoft already has posted a blog post by confirming a number of features which will appear Windows 8.1 Lockscreen.
Microsoft already has given the facility to their users to set a picture password. With Windows 8.1, this feature will be expanded so the lockscreen can be turned into a picture frame by pulling images from local storage or SkyDrive galleries. The users will have an extra facility to take picture without having log into the device.
Probable release date-------------------------
A public preview is going to be made available to users on the 26th June to coincide with Microsoft's Build event. The RTM is expected to follow in autumn. Speaking at the Wired Business Conference on May 7, Julie Larson-Green corporate vice-president for Windows, revealed that a public preview of Windows Blue will be made available on 24 June.
Improvement of windows 8 to windows 8.1
What else is on tap for Windows 8.1 (previously known as Windows Blue)? Microsoft exhibited more personalization, including the option to turn your lock screen into a slideshow of stored photos, as well as choose from more colors and backgrounds. You can also take photos from the Start screen without having to log in.
Windows 8.1 will allow users to change the size of the tiles on the Start screen and make it easier to rename them. New apps also won't automatically be pinned to the Start screen; users can pick and choose which ones they want to see on that screen via "apps view." Microsoft also said that users were unexpectedly moving tiles around, so stepping forward, users will have to press and hold (or right click) to move them.
On the apps front, "we will be improving all our built-in apps that come with Windows 8 for Windows 8.1," Microsoft said. The Photos app includes new editing features, and the Music app got a complete makeover, for example.
"You can resize apps to any size you want, share the screen between two apps, or have up to three apps on each screen if you have ... multiple displays connected, you can have different Windows Store apps running on all the displays at the same time and the Start Screen can stay open on one monitor," Microsoft said. "This makes multi-tasking even easier. Also in Windows 8.1, you can have multiple windows of the same app snapped together – such as two Internet Explorer windows."
Windows 8.1, which will be get-at-able to customers in the next, includes so many new features as well as refinements to the user interface. One of the upgrades lets you use the same background for the desktop and the new user interface.
User Interface Improvement of windows 8.1
Start button: May be the returns of the start button are the biggest change, at least philosophically, is the return of the Start button in the desktop interface. Windows 8 unlikely killed off the Start button when it built the new operating system around the Start screen, which is basically a supercharged Start menu with a touch-first user interface. Users protested, though, and Microsoft has brought the button back in Windows 8.1, although it's simply a visual cue for how to get back to the Start screen.
In addition to the button, users will also be able to set the All Apps screen — which lists all apps installed on the PC — as the default instead of the Start screen, which may appeal to some people who miss the old pop-up Start menu.
Live Tile Sizes:
Microsoft wishes power users will love the tiny live tile. It allows users to fit 4 app icons in the same range where there used to be just one. Since Windows 8 doesn't have "folders" for the Start screen, the extra-small tile is a decent substitute. Finally, Windows 8.1 will allow users to select and move multiple live tiles at once, and easily name groups.
No Longer Pin to Start: In Windows 8, apps automatically pined to the Start screen. In Windows 8.1, that will no longer occur, which will manually lead to a smug Start screen for most users? Microsoft said the self pinning often led to a swampy of downloaded-and-forgotten apps populating the center of many users' Start screens.
Apps Gesture: Going hand-in-hand with the "no pinning" change, there's now a fast way to see the All Apps screen — just swipe up. From there, it's easy to find an app and pin it with new sorting tools that let you list apps by name, category or most recently downloaded.
Auto Updates: No more manual app updates! With Windows 8.1, all your apps will simply update themselves in the middle of the night when downloads are available.
Boot to Desktop: In Windows 8.1, users will now be able to change settings to save them the single click they needed to perform in Windows 8 to take them to the desktop environment.
More Colors, More Textures: Whereas Windows 8 gave the user a very limited selection of color themes, Windows 8.1 allows a much wider variety of options. There are many more textures, too.
Desktop Background Image on Start: The Start screen in Windows 8.1 can now mirror the background image from the desktop environment, which should help reassure some users that the new UI isn't an alien world that's completely separate from the desktop.
Features of windows 8.1
Global Search: Microsoft has nicely enhanced the device's built-in search, one of the most-used functions in the Charms menu. In Windows 8.1, it'll function more like an omnibox, incorporating apps, documents as well as web content in results.Press enter, and those results are rendered as a search "Hero" — essentially an app that sorts the results in a way that's visual and easy to navigate. Search heroes replace the Bing app.Snap Upgrade:
Users can Snap more than two apps at the same time, too. There's technically no maximum number — it's only limited by the resolution of user’s display, since Microsoft doesn't need developers to support their apps in windows less than 500 pixels wide. For a high-res monitor, that could mean four or five apps running at one time.
Multi-Monitor Support: A new Settings app, with moves several functions from the desktop to the new user interface of windows 8.1, includes more function for multi-monitor setups and let users to set the resolution of secondary monitors manually if they like.
Reading List: In any app with content (including Internet Explorer), users will be able to save that content to a Reading List. It works with news apps like The New York Times and Microsoft's home-grown ones as well as web pages.
IE Improvements: IE in Windows 8.1 supports limitless tabs. Also, user’s open tabs will sync across devices, and users can make live tiles out of websites — real live tiles, with updating content — as long as the developer has included them.
Active Lock Screen: The lock screen supports an intelligent slide show that can do things like display photos from exactly a year ago. Users will also be able to take a Skype call without unlocking the device.
App Syncing Across Devices: When users log into a second Windows 8.1 device, the same apps you have on your first one will automatically download and sync. Similar to iOS, you'll be able to optimize individual apps and devices out of syncing.
Image Editing: The Photos app have primary photo editing in Windows 8.1.
New Microsoft Apps: Windows 8.1 brings new Microsoft apps including a Calculator, and Alarm, Food & Drink (which has a nifty hands-free recipe mode that lets you wave your hand to advance to the next step) and Health & Fitness (with a WebMD-esque symptom tracker).
Users new to Windows 8 will probably get a lot of use out of Help & Tips, which will help walk them through the finer details of the new windows 8.1.
Apps Enhancements: The Xbox-branded apps for Music, Video and Games all introduce new features that bring people to the content users interact with the most. News and Sports have similar enhancements, including customized sections and making stories and stats on user’s favorite teams more prominent.
Small-Screen SupportMicrosoft admits it missed the boat on small-screen tablets, which have exploded in the last two years. With Windows 8, a raft of technical issues stood in the way of manufacturers building Windows tablets in the 7- to 8-inch range.
Those issues have been introduced in Windows 8.1, paving the way for a new generation of Windows tablets to compete directly with the wishes of the iPad mini and Kindle Fire HD. One of the first such tablets, the Acer Iconia W3-810, leaked on Amazon a few weeks ago.
Image source : Microsoft.
Article source: mashable.com
I am looking for start button
ReplyDeleteIts a nice steps of Microsoft for the user who are using non-touch device.
ReplyDeleteI am do not like windwos8/8.1. I am use windows7 now I am use windows10. I think Windows10 best somokal
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