Some marquee names have joined the flock of Windows 8 apps, including an official Facebook app, Dropbox, Flipboard, Vevo, Foursquare, Rhapsody, and TripAdvisor. But our goal here is to help you find the gems among the non-default apps. You also get a good helping of excellent apps that come with Windows 8.1-including Calendar, Mail, Music, News, Photos, Scan, Sound Recorder, Travel, Videos, and Weather. On laptop and desktop PCs, the legacy desktop UI is already the default in Windows 8.1.ĭespite the trend, there are thousands of modern, touch-friendly Windows apps, many of them very good, though there's plenty of chaff. The company's bringing back a modified form of the old-school start menu, shrinking modern interface's importance. With Windows 10, which is in technical preview and expected to be released in about a year, Microsoft seems to be de-emphasizing the modern user interface. Maybe people are finally recognizing that the benefits of the new OS go beyond just tiles on the Start screen: Startup is the fastest in the biz, security is greatly improved, settings and accounts are synced between PCs, and you're really getting two operating systems for the price of one. At the start of November, Windows 8 and 8.1 passed the 15 percent market share mark. The new Windows is finally starting to get some traction. How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files.How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill.

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