the new home screen brings up many more options when you right click on a tile.
We have used Windows 8.1, and here is our verdict.
Towards the end of last week, Microsoft released Windows 8.1, and it started Microsoft in a whole new era in how they give out their operating systems. Until now, there has in fact been a few years between each new system, properly enough with error correction packets interspersed in between.
Windows 8.1 marks thus a brand new start, how much more upgrades than previously released to improve the user experience significantly – perhaps a little inspired by how Apple has used to do things, with the significant difference that the Windows upgrade is free.
Important chores
A proper face lift home screen, and an App screen that is possible to find, are just some of the many small changes in Windows 8.1. Photo: Christiane Aamo, Hardware.no
Similar to Apple’s upgrades are mostly in fact quite similar on the surface, but with some small but significant changes to the user experience – with great attention to enable you to customize your computer for your use. Under the hood there have also been some improvements, such as the integration with Microsoft’s cloud is far more integrated in the operating system itself.
If you have an account here, among other things, go far smoother to apply on both the local machine and in your personal cloud storage simultaneously. The closer integration will also make it easier to sync settings and content between computers than before.
Although Windows 8.1 ie is freshly baked in its final costume, the preview has been available for several months. This has now used daily since it came out, and thus we had plenty of time for us to test out the latest version of Microsoft’s operating system.
Much good to start with
existing Windows 8 users can we just say it straight: This is an upgrade you should just go into the Windows Store and download immediately. There have been a number of small, positive changes, and the user experience is far better.
, if you have been sitting on Windows 7 until today, and seen nothing but disadvantages of having to upgrade, it may actually be that this relaunching gives you a reason to finally move on. It is the way several reasons: In addition to Windows 8 itself provides portable little better battery life (Extra), we have seen that Windows 8 is the fastest operating system (Optional) too.
lack of start button, however, has alarmed many from taking the step above, and this is the first, most obvious change we see that Microsoft made in Windows 8.1.
Start button is finally back, and by right-clicking on it brings up several new options. Photo: Christiane Aamo, Hardware.no
Start button are namely the back, and although the standard only carry you over to your home screen – or Apps screen, with a small adjustment – it’s good to have it in place.
Simply by right clicking the button, you also get a number of new options in terms of what “old” Windows 8 had to offer – such as the ability to turn off the computer from your desktop, without holding on with keyboard shortcuts or logout first . You can also directly access your network connections in this way, without having to go through the little customizable Network and Sharing Center.
Start button are thus back in the Desk view, and for the many who are happiest with this view is more news on the sly. Until now, there has in fact been difficult to boot directly to the desktop without using third-party applications, but Microsoft has learned – and now opens for more customization.
far more personal
Using the settings under the four tabs you can customize Windows 8.1 much more to your liking, including by starting up right on your desktop. Simply by right clicking on the start line while you are out on your desktop, you can in fact open a box called “Properties”. Here it come to a new tab called “Navigation”, which allows you to make a number of adjustments in how Windows should behave.
image to the right shows how you can proceed to boot directly to the desktop, and we have also selected the Start button to send us straight to the Apps screen – as if we had printed on Windows 7′s Start button, and then selected “all programs”.
If the different gestures Windows 8 has introduced not to your taste, you can also disable them, and if desired, you can choose to always get listed common desktop applications before applications.
On the purely aesthetic level also allows you to use the same wallpaper on your home screen and App-screen desktop – another seemingly microscopic detail, but by sliding between two identical backgrounds, it seems no longer as you jump between completely different computers. Instead, you get one machine, with a workable start menu, which now just happens to take up the whole screen.
One last detail concerning the desktop concern you that it has talking a lot with some located in other time zones. You will appreciate the new ability built into Windows 8.1 to run World bottom corner. How to easily know what time it is, for example, both Singapore and San Francisco, as well as here in Norway.
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