The Full Screen Modern UI Version: A Revolutionary Upgrade to Internet Explorer

One of the most significant changes in Windows 8.1 is the full screen modern UI version of Internet Explorer. This version offers a sleek and user-friendly interface that allows users to easily navigate and interact with web pages. The new design provides a seamless transition from the start screen to the desktop, allowing users to seamlessly switch between the two modes. With this upgrade, users can enjoy the full benefits of the modern UI without sacrificing functionality.

For those who prefer the traditional desktop experience, Windows 8.1 also offers the option to bring the full-screen modern UI version back to the desktop. This allows users to enjoy the sleek and user-friendly interface on their desktop, while still having access to the traditional desktop mode. Users can simply click on the "View in Desktop" button from within the full-screen modern UI version, and Windows 8.1 will seamlessly transition them into the desktop mode.

The keyboard is another feature that has been improved in Windows 8.1. The new design allows for more intuitive input, with numbers and other characters appearing above letters on the keyboard. This makes it easier to type and navigate through web pages, especially when using touch devices. With a simple swipe of the finger, users can access the numbers and other special characters they need, without having to switch between keyboards or take up additional space.

The Reading List is another new feature in Windows 8.1 that has received widespread acclaim. This application allows users to save articles and web pages for later reading, while also providing a convenient way to access and organize their bookmarks. When a user wants to add an article to the Reading List, they can simply right-click on it and select "Add to Reading List" from the charms menu. The list will then appear on the side of the screen, with options to read, edit, or delete each item.

One of the most useful features of the Reading List is its ability to search for specific articles. Users can quickly find and access any article they need, making it a valuable resource for staying up-to-date on their favorite topics. Another convenient feature is the option to right-click on an item in the Reading List and delete it, which allows users to easily remove unwanted entries from the list.

In addition to these features, Windows 8.1 also includes new snapping capabilities that allow users to easily organize multiple windows on the screen. This feature makes it easy to multitask and access different applications simultaneously. Users can simply drag a window to the edge of the screen, and it will snap into place, allowing them to quickly switch between open windows.

Windows 8.1 also includes a number of other new features and improvements, including improved support for touch devices, enhanced security options, and several other changes designed to improve the overall user experience. One of the most notable changes is the return of the Start button, which allows users to easily access their start screen. This feature makes it easy to quickly switch between open windows and applications, while also providing a convenient way to launch new programs.

The modern UI design has received some criticism from users, who have expressed concerns about its ability to adapt to different workflows and user needs. However, Windows 8.1 has addressed many of these concerns with the introduction of new features such as the Reading List and snapping capabilities. These features make it easier for users to access and organize their bookmarks, while also providing a more intuitive and user-friendly interface.

Overall, Windows 8.1 represents a significant upgrade to Internet Explorer and offers a range of improvements that enhance the overall user experience. With its sleek and modern UI design, improved keyboard input, and convenient features such as the Reading List and snapping capabilities, this operating system is an excellent choice for users who want a fast, efficient, and intuitive computing experience.

One of the most impressive aspects of Windows 8.1 is its ability to seamlessly integrate with touch devices. The new design takes full advantage of the touchscreen interface, providing a more intuitive and user-friendly experience than ever before. With features such as the Reading List and snapping capabilities, users can easily access and organize their bookmarks, while also taking full advantage of the touchscreen interface.

In conclusion, Windows 8.1 represents a significant upgrade to Internet Explorer, offering a range of improvements that enhance the overall user experience. From its sleek and modern UI design to its convenient features such as the Reading List and snapping capabilities, this operating system is an excellent choice for users who want a fast, efficient, and intuitive computing experience.

If you're not using Windows 8 and are considering upgrading to Windows 8.1, it's definitely worth considering. The new features and improvements make it easier to access and organize your bookmarks, while also providing a more intuitive and user-friendly interface. Additionally, the full-screen modern UI version of Internet Explorer offers a sleek and modern design that will appeal to users who want a fast and efficient computing experience.

Overall, Windows 8.1 is an excellent choice for users who want a fast, efficient, and intuitive computing experience. With its range of new features and improvements, this operating system provides a user-friendly interface that makes it easy to access and organize your bookmarks, while also taking full advantage of the touchscreen interface.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello this is Ken from the CC here today to give you a wonderful demo of Windows 8.1 now we have done some Demos in the past of Windows 8.1 but Windows 8.1 was in a developer preview phase at the time but now it is officially released you can get it in a store as a physical item you could possibly get a digital download if you can do that or if you're using Windows 8 you can upgrade right from the Windows store for free so Windows 8.1 is part of Microsoft's New Rapid Release Cadence so they'll have more frequent updates out for Windows users and at lower cost for example this version of Windows 8.1 is free so let's take a look at some of the new features to start with we have an updated start screen and a lot of people have different opinions about the modern user interface which is this whole tile business going on here a lot of people like the desktop environment better and they were kind of upset when Windows 88 started focusing a lot on these tiles well there are some more desktop features thrown in and some start screen changes that might make your life a little bit easier so let's take a look at some personalization here if we go to our charms which in case you're not aware you can use a touchcreen to swipe out the charms menus but you can also use your cursor and position it and get the charms here and let's go to settings and let's say personalize so there's some new funky patterns going on with the start screen background here if you like that sort of thing I'm not a huge fan of them but maybe you'll like them and some of them are animated even so we got like this Dragon here which has a cool animation effect and there's another one so let's take a look at this uh I think it's this gear one here no let's see robots so yeah if you like robots you know you got some animated gears going on back there you know just uh some other eye candy options if you'd like and one of the new options is you can have your desktop background be in the start screen there and you can also customize your colors down here as well but I'm going to stick with my grays that I have set there so if we go to the desktop you can see this is my background image here right and this is one of the default ones that comes with Windows but if I go to the start screen it just kind of Fades it out and brings in the tile so you can have your background picture there not a problem another thing you will notice on the desktop is the start button is back so if you want you can just click that and go in between the start screen and the desk Des toop so that is now there and a little addition to the power user menu these options were here previously but now you have a shutdown or sign out menu which is pretty efficient so that's just a right click on the start button there so that's pretty nice that that is back in there instead of it being hidden you can still use the Windows key to go back and forth between the experiences as well so let's take a look at some of the tile customizations as you may see there are some different sizes here so if we right click we go into this new customize mode and this is similar to how Windows 8 worked it's just a little more f efficient one of the examples of a new feature is you can have different sizes so before it was basically this size or this size but now if you want you can make them really big to display more information or you can have them really tiny if they're not that important so you can do that I like having the desktop icon nice and large it works with a calendar too I don't have a Microsoft account set up with this but I believe you can actually display like a full calendar like a month here so that's pretty nice and these are still live tiles you can still have emails scroll by kind of like this is what we're doing with the weather here so we're using this larger tile to display more weather information and we can use these stock tiles to display stock information and let's say I want to see that bigger I can make that larger so I can see more stock information at a glance if the live tile loads which it doesn't seem to be right now but we'll just shrink that back down and it's the same thing with these other apps as well and I believe this food and drink app is actually a new addition as a built-in app and we can make these larger and see more information there you go so or they're just nicer to look at especially for like photos and things like that so that's really nice so those are some new size customizations and color changes or color customizations for the start screen another addition you will see is the PC settings icon is actually an icon that you can get to on the start screen which is pretty nice because before you always had to go to change PC settings in the panel here but now you can get to PC settings with a click of the mouse and one thing you will notice with PC settings is the interface looks pretty nice it's a little bit different and oh while this popped up let me show you this this is part of the new helps and tips application these interactive arrows will actually tell you how to get to the certain gestures so see how the arrow pointed up there and it showed me how to get to this that's our app switcher and we can also switch between our recent apps or desktop just right from this corner here so that is really nice we'll take another look at that in a bit but anyway back to the PC settings here there's a search button built right into here instead of having to go to the search charm all the time so we search for our settings like we could do a refresh and we could oops Let's uh actually spell that correctly so we could search other panels there we could do let's say we want display settings so we could do display settings and it will let us change our resolution here give us some more options and the side panel here is a lot more clean than the last version of Windows basically you can just go back and forth between the menus here instead of them extending outwards or bringing out other tabs on the screen and there's even a new panel that gives you your most recent settings so maybe this was a recent setting I used it knows I click it often so I can go to that nice and easily so that's the new uh PC settings panel there is still a normal control panel if you need that that is still built in that is not a problem this is just the modern UI version let's take a look at some more start screen functionality as you can see here there's a nice little arrow here what does that do you may Wonder well if you click it it brings it right to the all apps panel and there's a search bar right there still you could sort by date installed category whether whether or not it's frequently used or not so that's pretty cool so that is available to you that was in Windows 8 but it wasn't as easily accessible so that's a little bit of a change and we'll show some more features with that in a bit as well in terms of new applications we have a new modern UI calculator a sound recorder a scanning application and an alarms application so these are built in these are really nice so I could set alarms here use it as a timer use it as a stopwatch it's all built in it's really nice for portable devices and we have I'll give you another example we got our calculator here so we have a full screen modern UI calculator pretty nice and I'll show you these nice full screen apps aren't only good in full screen but if you have larger displays or you want to snap we'll get into more of the snapping features in a bit okay so I'm going to show you some features on the desktop a lot of Windows 7 people who are a little skeptical about going over to Windows 8 May really like these certain features like I said earlier the start button is there so that might ease some worries but if you right click on the taskbar and go to properties here's some cool features navigation this will let you change some things that make it act more familiar let's just say so for example when you sign in or close all applications on the screen it typically goes to the start screen but you can have it go to the desktop if you want like we showed earlier you can show your desktop background picture on the start screen you can also have the start screen appear on a specific display that you're using I believe that was already there in Windows 8 but I'm just going through these again just to make sure this one is new show the apps view automatically when you go to start so if you click this and we hit apply and let's say we go to the start screen it'll automatically take us to the apps menu so if you're just a guy that wants to get to your apps quickly that's fine I like to turn that off honestly and keep it how it normally is cuz I like getting to my add a glance information right here with these tiles but that option is there for you so so let's take a look at the helps and tips app Remember that little popup that showed up before Windows 8.1 is a lot more helpful when it displays how to use gestures you know swiping or putting your mouse in a corner or something it's a lot more helpful and if you ever need to get back to any of those tutorials they are in here as well so you can search in here or get to a certain category like hey what's new in Windows 8.1 well that's kind of what I'm covering with you right now there's actually quite a few changes and there's a lot for developers but we're just going over some of the bigger new features but yes there's a lot of nice new things in Windows 8.1 all right so I'm going to go back to the start screen here and I will demonstrate snap because there's a lot of new changes with SNAP here so let's open up some apps I'm going to open up weather we'll open up we'll open up the helps and tips app we'll keep that open maybe some maps and let's open up photos and a calculator and maybe the sound recorder let's just get a lot of stuff open here okay so I'm going to go to the desktop and when we go into the corner like I was showing earlier this is where we can switch between our apps so that's really nice that's still there but the cool thing with snapping is it's more flexible than in Windows 8 and you can even do 50/50 snapping which was not supported before so let's say we're on the desktop and we need to I don't maybe we're doing a screen recording we want to do an audio recording with our mic simultaneously or something we can just I don't know snap that there so we can have that like that and um make it smaller if we need to so now we can just do a recording here while while we work on our desktop here and let's say okay we're done with that so we'll drag that down and close the application and you still get this designated snap area so if we go back to our menu here let's say we want something else in there like oh maybe I need helps and tips we can drag that into there and still use the application snapped there and this is really nice on larger displays so that's a nice thing to have there so we'll close that out maybe get another application let's see what else we got here maybe we need weather information yeah yeah so we can drag that in there and uh we'll just block that for now so yep we got this nice weather app everything works right here we can drag this over some more and Go full screen get some weather information maybe go back to the desktop and now it's gone because we got rid of it because we dragged it into full screen and then we pulled out of it using the start button but I can drag it back if I want I can 50/50 snap it and another way to get rid of it I can just drag it away but the app is still running I just hit it from the desktop but it's still running up here if you want to actually close it you can drag it down to the bottom of the screen and get rid of it or you could just right click and hit close you can also right click and hit insert left or right or replace the desktop so I can actually just do boom insert left and it will snap it to the left for me another nice change is search actually that's more than just a change that's actually a pretty badass feature so let's go to our search charm here so we can tell the search function to search just files just settings maybe some images on the web or whatever or we could have it search everywhere so I could search a file on my computer if I wanted but I could also get at a glance information from the web let's say I want to look up a celebrity Simon Baker I could just do that boom the Bing search engine will provide me with a very graphical layout of all this information about Baker images links to Wikipedia The Intern Movie Database TV guide and it just arranges it very nicely for you so let's say we want to search for another thing I'll do something from the computer Clan here ghost murderer so we can search that and we have the Wikipedia article someone wrote about it we have our YouTube videos here that are all gathered together it's actually going to be a pretty cool series we started it already but we're continuing it now and if you like crime dramas or shows like The Mentalist you'll like like this upcoming short film we're doing a sequel but yeah so it pulls everything together Bing knows what to search for and I know Google is most commonly used over Bing but I actually find Bing pretty nice for certain things and it works really nice with the search interface so once again pictures websites Wikipedia The excerpts are even here you can open up Wikipedia articles in the application if you want or you could open them up in the browser and we can even go to a YouTube video so let's say we wanted to watch the ghost murderer mov we could click that or go to the bloopers we click it and we could open it in Chrome or Internet Explorer or any of our other browsers so let's go to a website here just to show some different changes in Internet Explorer as you can see part of the interface looks a little bit different also if you go to your menus here everything is all confined into the Bottom bar before it was kind of split across the screen so you had this part on the bottom and your tabs on the top it's a little more unified now it's all just at the bottom so it's a lot more clean this is the full screen modern UI version but you can still bring this to the desktop if you want so we could just go here and hit view in the desktop and we still have that full support right here yep and we got version 11 right here so a new version of IE with Windows 8.1 now I'd like to show you some changes with the keyboard so let's go into a word processing application let's see word we'll just open up word pad and this is more for touch devices I don't have one but if you do have a Windows tablet this will be a nice change in Windows 8.1 so let's say we're typing on the keyboard here and as you can see it looks a little bit different because there's some really nice changes here with numbers for example so let's say I am typing you know quy yeah typing quity and let's say I need a number well instead of switching between two different keyboards kind of like on other touch devices or taking up another row of numbers you can see the numbers are right over these letters here so you just swipe up and you get your numbers and when you swipe up you also get other options let's say you need a different variant of that character you can get that as well so I just got my numbers it's really nice and that works for other types of punctuation as well so if I go to the period here I can swipe up get a colon swipe up get a semicolon swipe up from here on the question mark get exclamation points slashes hashtags you know whatever so that's a really nice feature for touch because you can just put your finger there and swipe up and get those different characters so that's another nice little tidbit in Windows 8.1 another new application included is reading list so let's say for example we go to Internet Explorer let's go to our blog and let's say there's a bit of news so hey okay steam controller yay so let's go here and we'll load up that page and if we go to our charms here we go to share I could put this on the reading list and it will just come in on the side here and it says shared from Internet Explorer at 10:16 a.m. I could hit add and now it's in the reading list and I can do that for multiple articles that I want to get back to later so let's say I'm on the start screen I can pull up my reading list and there 's My article and you can just popularize this with whatever you'd like I could say open and it will snap and bring me into the browser and like I said with the new snapping it will just stay in a nice little compact list here so if I had more articles I could just click on them and I could browse them side by side kind of like this and let's say I want another article that I want to bookmark for later let's say I have this one here I know kind of ironic Mac article on a Windows demo but it's here so we can go to the charms here hit share and add another item to the reading list while the reading list stays open so we can just keep going through Reading and adding more things to the reading list as it stays open next to Internet Explorer I think it's pretty convenient you could also search if you have a very elaborate list of Articles and when you're done you can just right click on these and hit delete and maybe you're done reading for now we can close that and maybe we're done with Internet Explorer so we can close that as well so those are some of the changes and new applications in Windows 8.1 there's quite a bit more but I can't get through everything there's a lot of nice new changes in Windows 8.1 and I will say it's very awesome for free upgrade to Windows 8 users if you're not using Windows 8 you will have to pay for the upgrade but I don't know I think it's worth it going from 7 to 8.1 and a lot of those little tidbits that people were worried about with the modern UI interface have been changed I mean this is kind of like Windows 8 Take 2 you know the start buttons back you have that new all apps view that you can default to so those are some nice new changes if you have any other questions or comments leave them below and let us know thank you for watching this demo and also let us know about your experience with Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 all right thanks for tuning into this demo and we'll see you later don't forget to subscribe to stay in touch with more real deal videos and click that like button if you like the video and if you want to see more content from us or apply for a YouTube partnership visit us on our other great websiteshello this is Ken from the CC here today to give you a wonderful demo of Windows 8.1 now we have done some Demos in the past of Windows 8.1 but Windows 8.1 was in a developer preview phase at the time but now it is officially released you can get it in a store as a physical item you could possibly get a digital download if you can do that or if you're using Windows 8 you can upgrade right from the Windows store for free so Windows 8.1 is part of Microsoft's New Rapid Release Cadence so they'll have more frequent updates out for Windows users and at lower cost for example this version of Windows 8.1 is free so let's take a look at some of the new features to start with we have an updated start screen and a lot of people have different opinions about the modern user interface which is this whole tile business going on here a lot of people like the desktop environment better and they were kind of upset when Windows 88 started focusing a lot on these tiles well there are some more desktop features thrown in and some start screen changes that might make your life a little bit easier so let's take a look at some personalization here if we go to our charms which in case you're not aware you can use a touchcreen to swipe out the charms menus but you can also use your cursor and position it and get the charms here and let's go to settings and let's say personalize so there's some new funky patterns going on with the start screen background here if you like that sort of thing I'm not a huge fan of them but maybe you'll like them and some of them are animated even so we got like this Dragon here which has a cool animation effect and there's another one so let's take a look at this uh I think it's this gear one here no let's see robots so yeah if you like robots you know you got some animated gears going on back there you know just uh some other eye candy options if you'd like and one of the new options is you can have your desktop background be in the start screen there and you can also customize your colors down here as well but I'm going to stick with my grays that I have set there so if we go to the desktop you can see this is my background image here right and this is one of the default ones that comes with Windows but if I go to the start screen it just kind of Fades it out and brings in the tile so you can have your background picture there not a problem another thing you will notice on the desktop is the start button is back so if you want you can just click that and go in between the start screen and the desk Des toop so that is now there and a little addition to the power user menu these options were here previously but now you have a shutdown or sign out menu which is pretty efficient so that's just a right click on the start button there so that's pretty nice that that is back in there instead of it being hidden you can still use the Windows key to go back and forth between the experiences as well so let's take a look at some of the tile customizations as you may see there are some different sizes here so if we right click we go into this new customize mode and this is similar to how Windows 8 worked it's just a little more f efficient one of the examples of a new feature is you can have different sizes so before it was basically this size or this size but now if you want you can make them really big to display more information or you can have them really tiny if they're not that important so you can do that I like having the desktop icon nice and large it works with a calendar too I don't have a Microsoft account set up with this but I believe you can actually display like a full calendar like a month here so that's pretty nice and these are still live tiles you can still have emails scroll by kind of like this is what we're doing with the weather here so we're using this larger tile to display more weather information and we can use these stock tiles to display stock information and let's say I want to see that bigger I can make that larger so I can see more stock information at a glance if the live tile loads which it doesn't seem to be right now but we'll just shrink that back down and it's the same thing with these other apps as well and I believe this food and drink app is actually a new addition as a built-in app and we can make these larger and see more information there you go so or they're just nicer to look at especially for like photos and things like that so that's really nice so those are some new size customizations and color changes or color customizations for the start screen another addition you will see is the PC settings icon is actually an icon that you can get to on the start screen which is pretty nice because before you always had to go to change PC settings in the panel here but now you can get to PC settings with a click of the mouse and one thing you will notice with PC settings is the interface looks pretty nice it's a little bit different and oh while this popped up let me show you this this is part of the new helps and tips application these interactive arrows will actually tell you how to get to the certain gestures so see how the arrow pointed up there and it showed me how to get to this that's our app switcher and we can also switch between our recent apps or desktop just right from this corner here so that is really nice we'll take another look at that in a bit but anyway back to the PC settings here there's a search button built right into here instead of having to go to the search charm all the time so we search for our settings like we could do a refresh and we could oops Let's uh actually spell that correctly so we could search other panels there we could do let's say we want display settings so we could do display settings and it will let us change our resolution here give us some more options and the side panel here is a lot more clean than the last version of Windows basically you can just go back and forth between the menus here instead of them extending outwards or bringing out other tabs on the screen and there's even a new panel that gives you your most recent settings so maybe this was a recent setting I used it knows I click it often so I can go to that nice and easily so that's the new uh PC settings panel there is still a normal control panel if you need that that is still built in that is not a problem this is just the modern UI version let's take a look at some more start screen functionality as you can see here there's a nice little arrow here what does that do you may Wonder well if you click it it brings it right to the all apps panel and there's a search bar right there still you could sort by date installed category whether whether or not it's frequently used or not so that's pretty cool so that is available to you that was in Windows 8 but it wasn't as easily accessible so that's a little bit of a change and we'll show some more features with that in a bit as well in terms of new applications we have a new modern UI calculator a sound recorder a scanning application and an alarms application so these are built in these are really nice so I could set alarms here use it as a timer use it as a stopwatch it's all built in it's really nice for portable devices and we have I'll give you another example we got our calculator here so we have a full screen modern UI calculator pretty nice and I'll show you these nice full screen apps aren't only good in full screen but if you have larger displays or you want to snap we'll get into more of the snapping features in a bit okay so I'm going to show you some features on the desktop a lot of Windows 7 people who are a little skeptical about going over to Windows 8 May really like these certain features like I said earlier the start button is there so that might ease some worries but if you right click on the taskbar and go to properties here's some cool features navigation this will let you change some things that make it act more familiar let's just say so for example when you sign in or close all applications on the screen it typically goes to the start screen but you can have it go to the desktop if you want like we showed earlier you can show your desktop background picture on the start screen you can also have the start screen appear on a specific display that you're using I believe that was already there in Windows 8 but I'm just going through these again just to make sure this one is new show the apps view automatically when you go to start so if you click this and we hit apply and let's say we go to the start screen it'll automatically take us to the apps menu so if you're just a guy that wants to get to your apps quickly that's fine I like to turn that off honestly and keep it how it normally is cuz I like getting to my add a glance information right here with these tiles but that option is there for you so so let's take a look at the helps and tips app Remember that little popup that showed up before Windows 8.1 is a lot more helpful when it displays how to use gestures you know swiping or putting your mouse in a corner or something it's a lot more helpful and if you ever need to get back to any of those tutorials they are in here as well so you can search in here or get to a certain category like hey what's new in Windows 8.1 well that's kind of what I'm covering with you right now there's actually quite a few changes and there's a lot for developers but we're just going over some of the bigger new features but yes there's a lot of nice new things in Windows 8.1 all right so I'm going to go back to the start screen here and I will demonstrate snap because there's a lot of new changes with SNAP here so let's open up some apps I'm going to open up weather we'll open up we'll open up the helps and tips app we'll keep that open maybe some maps and let's open up photos and a calculator and maybe the sound recorder let's just get a lot of stuff open here okay so I'm going to go to the desktop and when we go into the corner like I was showing earlier this is where we can switch between our apps so that's really nice that's still there but the cool thing with snapping is it's more flexible than in Windows 8 and you can even do 50/50 snapping which was not supported before so let's say we're on the desktop and we need to I don't maybe we're doing a screen recording we want to do an audio recording with our mic simultaneously or something we can just I don't know snap that there so we can have that like that and um make it smaller if we need to so now we can just do a recording here while while we work on our desktop here and let's say okay we're done with that so we'll drag that down and close the application and you still get this designated snap area so if we go back to our menu here let's say we want something else in there like oh maybe I need helps and tips we can drag that into there and still use the application snapped there and this is really nice on larger displays so that's a nice thing to have there so we'll close that out maybe get another application let's see what else we got here maybe we need weather information yeah yeah so we can drag that in there and uh we'll just block that for now so yep we got this nice weather app everything works right here we can drag this over some more and Go full screen get some weather information maybe go back to the desktop and now it's gone because we got rid of it because we dragged it into full screen and then we pulled out of it using the start button but I can drag it back if I want I can 50/50 snap it and another way to get rid of it I can just drag it away but the app is still running I just hit it from the desktop but it's still running up here if you want to actually close it you can drag it down to the bottom of the screen and get rid of it or you could just right click and hit close you can also right click and hit insert left or right or replace the desktop so I can actually just do boom insert left and it will snap it to the left for me another nice change is search actually that's more than just a change that's actually a pretty badass feature so let's go to our search charm here so we can tell the search function to search just files just settings maybe some images on the web or whatever or we could have it search everywhere so I could search a file on my computer if I wanted but I could also get at a glance information from the web let's say I want to look up a celebrity Simon Baker I could just do that boom the Bing search engine will provide me with a very graphical layout of all this information about Baker images links to Wikipedia The Intern Movie Database TV guide and it just arranges it very nicely for you so let's say we want to search for another thing I'll do something from the computer Clan here ghost murderer so we can search that and we have the Wikipedia article someone wrote about it we have our YouTube videos here that are all gathered together it's actually going to be a pretty cool series we started it already but we're continuing it now and if you like crime dramas or shows like The Mentalist you'll like like this upcoming short film we're doing a sequel but yeah so it pulls everything together Bing knows what to search for and I know Google is most commonly used over Bing but I actually find Bing pretty nice for certain things and it works really nice with the search interface so once again pictures websites Wikipedia The excerpts are even here you can open up Wikipedia articles in the application if you want or you could open them up in the browser and we can even go to a YouTube video so let's say we wanted to watch the ghost murderer mov we could click that or go to the bloopers we click it and we could open it in Chrome or Internet Explorer or any of our other browsers so let's go to a website here just to show some different changes in Internet Explorer as you can see part of the interface looks a little bit different also if you go to your menus here everything is all confined into the Bottom bar before it was kind of split across the screen so you had this part on the bottom and your tabs on the top it's a little more unified now it's all just at the bottom so it's a lot more clean this is the full screen modern UI version but you can still bring this to the desktop if you want so we could just go here and hit view in the desktop and we still have that full support right here yep and we got version 11 right here so a new version of IE with Windows 8.1 now I'd like to show you some changes with the keyboard so let's go into a word processing application let's see word we'll just open up word pad and this is more for touch devices I don't have one but if you do have a Windows tablet this will be a nice change in Windows 8.1 so let's say we're typing on the keyboard here and as you can see it looks a little bit different because there's some really nice changes here with numbers for example so let's say I am typing you know quy yeah typing quity and let's say I need a number well instead of switching between two different keyboards kind of like on other touch devices or taking up another row of numbers you can see the numbers are right over these letters here so you just swipe up and you get your numbers and when you swipe up you also get other options let's say you need a different variant of that character you can get that as well so I just got my numbers it's really nice and that works for other types of punctuation as well so if I go to the period here I can swipe up get a colon swipe up get a semicolon swipe up from here on the question mark get exclamation points slashes hashtags you know whatever so that's a really nice feature for touch because you can just put your finger there and swipe up and get those different characters so that's another nice little tidbit in Windows 8.1 another new application included is reading list so let's say for example we go to Internet Explorer let's go to our blog and let's say there's a bit of news so hey okay steam controller yay so let's go here and we'll load up that page and if we go to our charms here we go to share I could put this on the reading list and it will just come in on the side here and it says shared from Internet Explorer at 10:16 a.m. I could hit add and now it's in the reading list and I can do that for multiple articles that I want to get back to later so let's say I'm on the start screen I can pull up my reading list and there 's My article and you can just popularize this with whatever you'd like I could say open and it will snap and bring me into the browser and like I said with the new snapping it will just stay in a nice little compact list here so if I had more articles I could just click on them and I could browse them side by side kind of like this and let's say I want another article that I want to bookmark for later let's say I have this one here I know kind of ironic Mac article on a Windows demo but it's here so we can go to the charms here hit share and add another item to the reading list while the reading list stays open so we can just keep going through Reading and adding more things to the reading list as it stays open next to Internet Explorer I think it's pretty convenient you could also search if you have a very elaborate list of Articles and when you're done you can just right click on these and hit delete and maybe you're done reading for now we can close that and maybe we're done with Internet Explorer so we can close that as well so those are some of the changes and new applications in Windows 8.1 there's quite a bit more but I can't get through everything there's a lot of nice new changes in Windows 8.1 and I will say it's very awesome for free upgrade to Windows 8 users if you're not using Windows 8 you will have to pay for the upgrade but I don't know I think it's worth it going from 7 to 8.1 and a lot of those little tidbits that people were worried about with the modern UI interface have been changed I mean this is kind of like Windows 8 Take 2 you know the start buttons back you have that new all apps view that you can default to so those are some nice new changes if you have any other questions or comments leave them below and let us know thank you for watching this demo and also let us know about your experience with Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 all right thanks for tuning into this demo and we'll see you later don't forget to subscribe to stay in touch with more real deal videos and click that like button if you like the video and if you want to see more content from us or apply for a YouTube partnership visit us on our other great websiteshello this is Ken from the CC here today to give you a wonderful demo of Windows 8.1 now we have done some Demos in the past of Windows 8.1 but Windows 8.1 was in a developer preview phase at the time but now it is officially released you can get it in a store as a physical item you could possibly get a digital download if you can do that or if you're using Windows 8 you can upgrade right from the Windows store for free so Windows 8.1 is part of Microsoft's New Rapid Release Cadence so they'll have more frequent updates out for Windows users and at lower cost for example this version of Windows 8.1 is free so let's take a look at some of the new features to start with we have an updated start screen and a lot of people have different opinions about the modern user interface which is this whole tile business going on here a lot of people like the desktop environment better and they were kind of upset when Windows 88 started focusing a lot on these tiles well there are some more desktop features thrown in and some start screen changes that might make your life a little bit easier so let's take a look at some personalization here if we go to our charms which in case you're not aware you can use a touchcreen to swipe out the charms menus but you can also use your cursor and position it and get the charms here and let's go to settings and let's say personalize so there's some new funky patterns going on with the start screen background here if you like that sort of thing I'm not a huge fan of them but maybe you'll like them and some of them are animated even so we got like this Dragon here which has a cool animation effect and there's another one so let's take a look at this uh I think it's this gear one here no let's see robots so yeah if you like robots you know you got some animated gears going on back there you know just uh some other eye candy options if you'd like and one of the new options is you can have your desktop background be in the start screen there and you can also customize your colors down here as well but I'm going to stick with my grays that I have set there so if we go to the desktop you can see this is my background image here right and this is one of the default ones that comes with Windows but if I go to the start screen it just kind of Fades it out and brings in the tile so you can have your background picture there not a problem another thing you will notice on the desktop is the start button is back so if you want you can just click that and go in between the start screen and the desk Des toop so that is now there and a little addition to the power user menu these options were here previously but now you have a shutdown or sign out menu which is pretty efficient so that's just a right click on the start button there so that's pretty nice that that is back in there instead of it being hidden you can still use the Windows key to go back and forth between the experiences as well so let's take a look at some of the tile customizations as you may see there are some different sizes here so if we right click we go into this new customize mode and this is similar to how Windows 8 worked it's just a little more f efficient one of the examples of a new feature is you can have different sizes so before it was basically this size or this size but now if you want you can make them really big to display more information or you can have them really tiny if they're not that important so you can do that I like having the desktop icon nice and large it works with a calendar too I don't have a Microsoft account set up with this but I believe you can actually display like a full calendar like a month here so that's pretty nice and these are still live tiles you can still have emails scroll by kind of like this is what we're doing with the weather here so we're using this larger tile to display more weather information and we can use these stock tiles to display stock information and let's say I want to see that bigger I can make that larger so I can see more stock information at a glance if the live tile loads which it doesn't seem to be right now but we'll just shrink that back down and it's the same thing with these other apps as well and I believe this food and drink app is actually a new addition as a built-in app and we can make these larger and see more information there you go so or they're just nicer to look at especially for like photos and things like that so that's really nice so those are some new size customizations and color changes or color customizations for the start screen another addition you will see is the PC settings icon is actually an icon that you can get to on the start screen which is pretty nice because before you always had to go to change PC settings in the panel here but now you can get to PC settings with a click of the mouse and one thing you will notice with PC settings is the interface looks pretty nice it's a little bit different and oh while this popped up let me show you this this is part of the new helps and tips application these interactive arrows will actually tell you how to get to the certain gestures so see how the arrow pointed up there and it showed me how to get to this that's our app switcher and we can also switch between our recent apps or desktop just right from this corner here so that is really nice we'll take another look at that in a bit but anyway back to the PC settings here there's a search button built right into here instead of having to go to the search charm all the time so we search for our settings like we could do a refresh and we could oops Let's uh actually spell that correctly so we could search other panels there we could do let's say we want display settings so we could do display settings and it will let us change our resolution here give us some more options and the side panel here is a lot more clean than the last version of Windows basically you can just go back and forth between the menus here instead of them extending outwards or bringing out other tabs on the screen and there's even a new panel that gives you your most recent settings so maybe this was a recent setting I used it knows I click it often so I can go to that nice and easily so that's the new uh PC settings panel there is still a normal control panel if you need that that is still built in that is not a problem this is just the modern UI version let's take a look at some more start screen functionality as you can see here there's a nice little arrow here what does that do you may Wonder well if you click it it brings it right to the all apps panel and there's a search bar right there still you could sort by date installed category whether whether or not it's frequently used or not so that's pretty cool so that is available to you that was in Windows 8 but it wasn't as easily accessible so that's a little bit of a change and we'll show some more features with that in a bit as well in terms of new applications we have a new modern UI calculator a sound recorder a scanning application and an alarms application so these are built in these are really nice so I could set alarms here use it as a timer use it as a stopwatch it's all built in it's really nice for portable devices and we have I'll give you another example we got our calculator here so we have a full screen modern UI calculator pretty nice and I'll show you these nice full screen apps aren't only good in full screen but if you have larger displays or you want to snap we'll get into more of the snapping features in a bit okay so I'm going to show you some features on the desktop a lot of Windows 7 people who are a little skeptical about going over to Windows 8 May really like these certain features like I said earlier the start button is there so that might ease some worries but if you right click on the taskbar and go to properties here's some cool features navigation this will let you change some things that make it act more familiar let's just say so for example when you sign in or close all applications on the screen it typically goes to the start screen but you can have it go to the desktop if you want like we showed earlier you can show your desktop background picture on the start screen you can also have the start screen appear on a specific display that you're using I believe that was already there in Windows 8 but I'm just going through these again just to make sure this one is new show the apps view automatically when you go to start so if you click this and we hit apply and let's say we go to the start screen it'll automatically take us to the apps menu so if you're just a guy that wants to get to your apps quickly that's fine I like to turn that off honestly and keep it how it normally is cuz I like getting to my add a glance information right here with these tiles but that option is there for you so so let's take a look at the helps and tips app Remember that little popup that showed up before Windows 8.1 is a lot more helpful when it displays how to use gestures you know swiping or putting your mouse in a corner or something it's a lot more helpful and if you ever need to get back to any of those tutorials they are in here as well so you can search in here or get to a certain category like hey what's new in Windows 8.1 well that's kind of what I'm covering with you right now there's actually quite a few changes and there's a lot for developers but we're just going over some of the bigger new features but yes there's a lot of nice new things in Windows 8.1 all right so I'm going to go back to the start screen here and I will demonstrate snap because there's a lot of new changes with SNAP here so let's open up some apps I'm going to open up weather we'll open up we'll open up the helps and tips app we'll keep that open maybe some maps and let's open up photos and a calculator and maybe the sound recorder let's just get a lot of stuff open here okay so I'm going to go to the desktop and when we go into the corner like I was showing earlier this is where we can switch between our apps so that's really nice that's still there but the cool thing with snapping is it's more flexible than in Windows 8 and you can even do 50/50 snapping which was not supported before so let's say we're on the desktop and we need to I don't maybe we're doing a screen recording we want to do an audio recording with our mic simultaneously or something we can just I don't know snap that there so we can have that like that and um make it smaller if we need to so now we can just do a recording here while while we work on our desktop here and let's say okay we're done with that so we'll drag that down and close the application and you still get this designated snap area so if we go back to our menu here let's say we want something else in there like oh maybe I need helps and tips we can drag that into there and still use the application snapped there and this is really nice on larger displays so that's a nice thing to have there so we'll close that out maybe get another application let's see what else we got here maybe we need weather information yeah yeah so we can drag that in there and uh we'll just block that for now so yep we got this nice weather app everything works right here we can drag this over some more and Go full screen get some weather information maybe go back to the desktop and now it's gone because we got rid of it because we dragged it into full screen and then we pulled out of it using the start button but I can drag it back if I want I can 50/50 snap it and another way to get rid of it I can just drag it away but the app is still running I just hit it from the desktop but it's still running up here if you want to actually close it you can drag it down to the bottom of the screen and get rid of it or you could just right click and hit close you can also right click and hit insert left or right or replace the desktop so I can actually just do boom insert left and it will snap it to the left for me another nice change is search actually that's more than just a change that's actually a pretty badass feature so let's go to our search charm here so we can tell the search function to search just files just settings maybe some images on the web or whatever or we could have it search everywhere so I could search a file on my computer if I wanted but I could also get at a glance information from the web let's say I want to look up a celebrity Simon Baker I could just do that boom the Bing search engine will provide me with a very graphical layout of all this information about Baker images links to Wikipedia The Intern Movie Database TV guide and it just arranges it very nicely for you so let's say we want to search for another thing I'll do something from the computer Clan here ghost murderer so we can search that and we have the Wikipedia article someone wrote about it we have our YouTube videos here that are all gathered together it's actually going to be a pretty cool series we started it already but we're continuing it now and if you like crime dramas or shows like The Mentalist you'll like like this upcoming short film we're doing a sequel but yeah so it pulls everything together Bing knows what to search for and I know Google is most commonly used over Bing but I actually find Bing pretty nice for certain things and it works really nice with the search interface so once again pictures websites Wikipedia The excerpts are even here you can open up Wikipedia articles in the application if you want or you could open them up in the browser and we can even go to a YouTube video so let's say we wanted to watch the ghost murderer mov we could click that or go to the bloopers we click it and we could open it in Chrome or Internet Explorer or any of our other browsers so let's go to a website here just to show some different changes in Internet Explorer as you can see part of the interface looks a little bit different also if you go to your menus here everything is all confined into the Bottom bar before it was kind of split across the screen so you had this part on the bottom and your tabs on the top it's a little more unified now it's all just at the bottom so it's a lot more clean this is the full screen modern UI version but you can still bring this to the desktop if you want so we could just go here and hit view in the desktop and we still have that full support right here yep and we got version 11 right here so a new version of IE with Windows 8.1 now I'd like to show you some changes with the keyboard so let's go into a word processing application let's see word we'll just open up word pad and this is more for touch devices I don't have one but if you do have a Windows tablet this will be a nice change in Windows 8.1 so let's say we're typing on the keyboard here and as you can see it looks a little bit different because there's some really nice changes here with numbers for example so let's say I am typing you know quy yeah typing quity and let's say I need a number well instead of switching between two different keyboards kind of like on other touch devices or taking up another row of numbers you can see the numbers are right over these letters here so you just swipe up and you get your numbers and when you swipe up you also get other options let's say you need a different variant of that character you can get that as well so I just got my numbers it's really nice and that works for other types of punctuation as well so if I go to the period here I can swipe up get a colon swipe up get a semicolon swipe up from here on the question mark get exclamation points slashes hashtags you know whatever so that's a really nice feature for touch because you can just put your finger there and swipe up and get those different characters so that's another nice little tidbit in Windows 8.1 another new application included is reading list so let's say for example we go to Internet Explorer let's go to our blog and let's say there's a bit of news so hey okay steam controller yay so let's go here and we'll load up that page and if we go to our charms here we go to share I could put this on the reading list and it will just come in on the side here and it says shared from Internet Explorer at 10:16 a.m. I could hit add and now it's in the reading list and I can do that for multiple articles that I want to get back to later so let's say I'm on the start screen I can pull up my reading list and there 's My article and you can just popularize this with whatever you'd like I could say open and it will snap and bring me into the browser and like I said with the new snapping it will just stay in a nice little compact list here so if I had more articles I could just click on them and I could browse them side by side kind of like this and let's say I want another article that I want to bookmark for later let's say I have this one here I know kind of ironic Mac article on a Windows demo but it's here so we can go to the charms here hit share and add another item to the reading list while the reading list stays open so we can just keep going through Reading and adding more things to the reading list as it stays open next to Internet Explorer I think it's pretty convenient you could also search if you have a very elaborate list of Articles and when you're done you can just right click on these and hit delete and maybe you're done reading for now we can close that and maybe we're done with Internet Explorer so we can close that as well so those are some of the changes and new applications in Windows 8.1 there's quite a bit more but I can't get through everything there's a lot of nice new changes in Windows 8.1 and I will say it's very awesome for free upgrade to Windows 8 users if you're not using Windows 8 you will have to pay for the upgrade but I don't know I think it's worth it going from 7 to 8.1 and a lot of those little tidbits that people were worried about with the modern UI interface have been changed I mean this is kind of like Windows 8 Take 2 you know the start buttons back you have that new all apps view that you can default to so those are some nice new changes if you have any other questions or comments leave them below and let us know thank you for watching this demo and also let us know about your experience with Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 all right thanks for tuning into this demo and we'll see you later don't forget to subscribe to stay in touch with more real deal videos and click that like button if you like the video and if you want to see more content from us or apply for a YouTube partnership visit us on our other great websites\n"