November 2013
Beginner to intermediate
950 pages
34h 26m
English
Content preview from Windows 8.1: The Missing Manual
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News
The News app (technically called Bing News) is one of several free, daily, full-screen magazines that come preinstalled in TileWorld. (Sports, Finance, Health & Fitness, Food & Drink, and Travel are the others.)
This is a fantastic feature. At its core, Bing is simply grabbing articles from over 300 different big-name news Web sites: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, CNN, Huffington Post, and so on.
Figure 4-27. News is one of several apps that come with TileWorld, all designed to bring you a magazine-style layout of the latest Web articles on certain topics: Sports, Finance, Travel, and so on. The key to using all of them is horizontal scrolling.
But it reformats everything into one uniform, attractive, screen-friendly layout (Figure 4-27). No hard-to-read color schemes or ugly fonts. No blinking ads, banners, or obnoxious animations. If the 300 publications presented here pique your interest at all, then the News app is, for sure, the way to read them.
They all work essentially alike. You open the app (Internet connection required). You see a huge cover photo. Tap or click it to read the associated article.
Or scroll horizontally to see headlines and teaser blurbs for other articles.
As it turns out, News is more like a newspaper than you might think. It actually has sections, like a real newspaper.
If you swipe down from the top (or right-click, or press ...
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