Sunday, 26 January 2014









windows 8 was more than just an amazing way to thing about the desktop interface for Microsoft, it was a major bet that this touch will be the future of computers. A bet that  it could flesh out its meager Windows App Store. A  bet  that people would come around to Metro's dramatic changes and not run screaming in the different direction. It seems that Microsoft may have underestimated the intensity of some of that running and screaming though, particularly in regard to the shortage of a start button, and the shortage of the option to boot right to desktop. The moaning had been load enough, it seems that Microsoft had seen fit to acquiesce just a little bit and just there.

When you first boot up the Windows 8, you are not going to notice many differences slapping you across the face, the user interface is pretty much exactly the same. Metro is still your colorful little landing page by default and the traditional desktop still lives behind it. You have still got your charms off to the right, your app drawer hiding away at the bottom. Live tiles can be smaller now, little one by one squares that remind you of Windows Phone but the other that that things look pretty much the same. At a glance, anyway.

Xbox Music has a brand new look, the framework behind the scenes appears to be pretty much identical to the original application, but the interface is much prettier this time around. Also, when you pull off a Bing omnisearch for a musician, the link it pops up will open and play in the Xbox Music, if you click them.
Search has been elevated from a keyboard centric way to select one of your applications to a place where you can interface with a firehose of internet. Instead of simply searching your computer, it now includes web search results as well, via Bing, naturally. The results is that the Metro desktop now doubles as your search engine and a nice one at that.


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