When you have more than one monitor, for instance, Windows 8.1 will make sure you can independently adjust scaling for each one so that text, icons and other visual elements are optimally sized and proportioned on each display. Microsoft paid attention to little technical details as well. Related story: Analyst wants Microsoft to break upĮven littler things: It's not just tweaks to big conceptual ideas that make Windows 8.1 promising. SkyDrive won't just make your cloud files look and feel native inside Windows, but it will also sync all your Windows and app settings on the fly, so that you don't have to reconfigure every Windows 8.1 device you use. When you receive a Skype call and your computer is locked, you will be able to answer the call without having to first unlock your computer.Īnd most importantly, the SkyDrive cloud storage service will be more tightly woven into Windows 8.1. Related story: Windows 8 fixes are on the wayĪpp improvements: Microsoft has put in a lot of work into more tightly integrating its own services throughout Windows 8.1.įor example, if you search for a musician using the Bing search app, links and play buttons to that artist's songs and albums will be integrated into the results. You can even rearrange panes and drag and drop files between them as easily as you would two windows in desktop mode. Instead, the screen will automatically split itself into two (if it isn't already), and Internet Explorer will pop up right next to your email app. For example, if you're reading an email and you click on a link, you will no longer exit the email app and go into the browser. To make Windows 8.1 users feel less locked into a single app, snap view will automatically launch in certain situations.
Unlike Windows 8, which ran the second app in snap view as a more limited widget in a small strip of the screen, Windows 8.1 lets users decide how much space each app takes up on the screen - half? a third? a quarter? Your call! On a smaller device like the Surface, you can still only have two.) (That's provided you have two 2560x1600 resolution monitors.
Windows 8.1 will let you run up to eight apps side by side - up from just two in Windows 8. Snap view: The biggest change in Windows 8.1 is the expansion of the "snap view" feature that enables multiple apps on the screen at the same time. Related story: 3 ways to improve Apple's Mac OS X In other words, the new Start button brings back all the functionality of the Start button from Windows 7, but with the look and feel of the more modern Windows 8.1.
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