November 2013
Beginner to intermediate
950 pages
34h 26m
English
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What’s New in Windows 8.1
In the year between the release of Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, Microsoft did an incredible amount of work. Most of the improvements are to TileWorld, since that was the brand-new environment. Nips and tucks are everywhere, but here are the big-ticket improvements:
Beefier apps. The stripped-down starter apps have been brought up to speed. Now you can drag and drop messages in Mail, edit pictures in Photos, and not get lost in Music.
New apps. Windows 8.1 comes with all-new TileWorld apps, too, including Alarms, Calculator, Sound Recorder, Food & Drink, Health & Fitness—and Reading List, which lets you round up Web articles and other material onto a single, handsome, magazine-style layout.
Customization. You can dress up your desktop, Start screen, and Lock screen in more ways now. Your Lock screen can be a slideshow, for example, and your TileWorld and Windows desktop wallpaper can be the same.
Help. Yes, there’s onscreen help now. And the first time you use Windows 8.1, big arrows point to the corners of the screen to teach you where to click to open the standard Windows 8 hidden panels (see Figure 1).
Figure 1. The first time you use Windows 8, you’ll encounter a few of these huge corner Help screens, pointing out the key gestures of Windows 8. They go away after one appearance each.
Better screen-splitting. You could always split the screen between two TileWorld ...
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