What's new in Windows "Blue" - Computerworld

Then it is clarified that mentioned Windows “Blue,” which appeared in the cyber space which screens at the start of the year, not next Windows version.

There is however a huge fix of Windows 8, which is available free for existing customers. Unlike earlier versions, it comes as a service update in Windows Update, but as an app update in the Windows Store.

Windows Store app store for Microsoft, in line with Google and their Play-shop. The difference is that Google has over 800,000 apps in its store, where Windows Store has just jade past 70,000 pieces.

Confirmed in Boston

Marketing manager for Windows at Microsoft, Tami Rell, confirmed this in an introduction Tuesday night at a technology conference organized by JP Morgan in Boston. Windows 8.1 is going to fall.

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Under the Build developers’ conference in late June, the first open test versions of Windows 8.1 will be made available. The standard Windows 8 for Intel and RT version for ARM processors will get the update at the same time.

Millions upon millions

Rell said last week that Windows 8 was sold 100 million copies since its launch. Thus the tangent Windows 8 predecessor and their sales for the same period of time after the launch of Windows 7

It’s probably disappointing for Microsoft, which has also had noted that PC sales fell by 14 percent in 2012 compared to the year before. It still means that it sold around 400 million PCs annually and about 94 percent of those will have Windows installed. The company provides therefore good results, with six billion plus on the bottom line in the first quarter. Microsoft is not a narrow and vulnerable company that some of the competitors and can withstand a product line performs worse than expected.

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decline in sales due to not only the choice of tablets based on mobile os. Weak economic conditions in several markets also affects the sales of PCs. It also appears that the company is starting to include tablet with Windows 8 in product type PCs. When you are true to the given word sense personal computer “, but they will probably meet resistance from the strenuous which will end the PC era every time total sales do not increase.

Janus View

criticism of Windows 8 has bottomed in the user interface has undergone the biggest change since the transition from Windows 3.x to Windows 95 But the giant has not had any choice. Finger control is preferred user interface for most users, and an absolute prerequisite for new users. And where competitors like Google Android has done this to their lightweight OS for mobile devices, Microsoft wanted to be first with this finger control in a fully functional os.

Therefore, the primary start menu in Windows 8 has been a tile based ModernUI interface, where the main app and one application is in front of the finger friendly touch surfaces. Behind this is the endless list of the all the apps and applications remained at a flat menu reminiscent of a classic start menu.

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As the main window 2 has been a desk so he has been familiar with since Windows 95 Some call this a Janus-view, after the mythological Roman deity with two faces.

The program works great if you have touch screen but is a giant transition if you have more common setup with monitor with mouse and keyboard. This is in turn a very common combination.

adaptation os

Several computer vendors who make PCs with Windows 8 has also added their own customizations where a classic start menu in the desktop icing has been available. Methods to launch Windows 8 directly to the front desk vising a tile based start menu (ModernUI) has been described in several forums online.

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Defenders of the new interface has used this as an example of Microsoft in no way sacrificed the classic start menu. If it had been important to force the users, so the company had blocked all other menu and boot options than ModernUI tiles, has been the argument of debate online.

It is this feedback the company takes seriously. It therefore appears that Windows 8.1 will have an option where you can select the boot to the desktop and the classic start menu as the default start mode.

Another long awaited feature will be running two apps side by side in ModernUI and several other fixes in how apps behave. Better Skydrive, new browser version, a mini version of the tiles so Windows Phone 8 is introduced and the ability to “lock” app tiles so that the appearance does not change.

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These changes according to the news service for Computerworld.