Today, the first official video review of Windows 8.1 Preview from Microsoft appeared. Translated into Russian and lay out for review. Please share on social networks using the buttons below. Review text See from bottom to the roller. Windows 8.1 PREVIEW output is expected on June 26.
UPD: Windows 8.1 came out: download windows 8.1
Hi, My name is Jensen Harris, I am engaged in Windows usability and now I will show some of the new features that are present in the preliminary version of Windows 8.1
Let's start with the lock screen, which we turned into a beautiful photo frame, receiving photos from the cloud, from a computer and a phone and output all in one place.
We are on the new primary screen Windows 8.1. You can immediately notice that two new tiles (tiles) were added. First, a large square tile appeared, which in this case is used to display the weather. Also, this tile can show multiple email messages or any schedule. Low-size tiles were also added, which allow you to more efficiently use the Start screen space in Windows 8.1.
One of the things we have improved in Windows 8.1 are the "All Applications" screen. I make the gesture from the bottom up and see all the applications installed on this computer. It is possible to sort this list by name, date, category or show the most frequently used applications.
In order to place the application on the initial screen, you can select the application, hold it for a while and select the "Attach to the initial screen" item.
Now, if I want to configure the Windows 8.1 initial screen, I press and hold one of the tiles, after which I can choose a few more tiles. After I chose the applications, I can drag them immediately all where I want. After that, I specify the name of the group and as a result I get an initial screen that looks exactly as I need.
We also added new personalization options. Now you can choose any color of the rainbow for Windows. We also added new visual effects, like this - the image in the back background follows your finger.
We also added the ability to choose wallpapers that will be placed on the background of the starting screen "Start" and on Windows 8.1 desktop
One of the most notable innovations in Windows 8.1 is a new search.
Let's start a new search by dialing a request, for example - Merlin Monroe. We have created a beautiful, similar to a specialized application, a search that displays everything on request on a computer and on the Internet in one place: information, images, references to materials and news, as well as related requests and actions that can be done directly from Search results. We also see results from the Internet displaying miniatures of pages as they actually look like. Search for pictures Allows you to select, with what prevailing color you want to see pictures, determine the size of images and other parameters.
Another example of using the search - open the search and start scoring the letters SK, as a result I see everything you can do on this computer on this request - launch applications such as SkyDrive or Skype, play music directly from search results or see the results on the Internet . Everything in one place is so arranged in Windows 8.1.
Windows 8.1 is closely associated with cloud services, in particular - SkyDrive, which provides you with gigabytes of disk space in the cloud to store your files. In each application on the computer, I can choose what we work with - with this computer or SkyDrive.
In addition, in Windows 8.1, multitasking was changed.
For example, I go to the "Mail" application. In the letter I choose to "open", as a result of which the "Photos" application opens on the right.
I can choose the size of each of these applications - to make them the same, one big, the other is small - while both applications continue to work: I can view photos, edit them. And on a bigger screen, I can place 2, 3 or even 4 applications at the same time.
It is only a few of the innovations in the preliminary version of Windows 8.1 - I hope you decide to get acquainted with them on June 26, 2013.