Thursday, October 17, 2013

The Start button in Windows 8.1 back - Le Figaro

Microsoft has made available a new version of its operating system Thursday. It marks the return of the “Start” button, the computer group had tried to suppress.

Microsoft has made available Thursday evening the new version of its operating system, Windows 8.1, which reintroduces including “Start” button requested by many users. The update can be downloaded for free in the Windows Store online store by users of Windows 8 release. It will go on sale Friday on DVD and on PCs and tablets of a variety of brands.

Launched a year ago, Windows 8 is not as successful as hoped. The successor of Windows 7 was supposed to reinvent the system to adapt to mobile devices, on which the group has fallen behind Apple and Google. Microsoft has not regained market share. “Windows 8.1 demonstrates our commitment to continually improve the product to enhance the use of consumers,” said Brandon LeBlanc, a marketing manager from Microsoft, the official blog of the group.

most commented new Windows 8.1 is the return of the “Start” menu. The button, present since Windows 95 was removed from the traditional system interface. Microsoft preferred to focus on the new home for use on touch screens of tablets and smartphones, where the icons have been replaced by “tiles” screen. The measure, symbolic, has been criticized by the followers of Windows. To the point that Microsoft agrees to step back in Windows 8.1, and also allows to start the computer or tablet under the old Windows display.

new version of Windows introduced several other innovations. New options for customizing the home screen have been made. Searches are performed simultaneously on the memory of the computer or device on the web or in areas remote storage cloud. On the new Windows interface, up to four applications can now be used at the same time and sized according to the user’s choice. The release of Windows 8.1 also coincides with the arrival of new applications optimized for the system, including that of Facebook.

sales of Windows 8 suffering from the crisis of the PC market, cannibalized by the rise of tablet PCs. Sales have lost more than 10% in the third quarter, according to Gartner. Microsoft also faces an insufficient supply of good hybrid touch screen products, halfway between tablet and computer that Windows 8 has been specifically designed. He also paid the confusion between Windows 8 and Windows RT, two versions of the system that does not have the same functionality.

(with AFP)

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