{"id":81149,"date":"2013-06-26T18:34:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T16:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=81149"},"modified":"2013-06-27T08:29:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T06:29:47","slug":"windows-8-1-preview-download-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/81149-windows-8-1-preview-download-live.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8.1 Preview download live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> announced the Windows 8.1 preview today, which users can get access to via the <a href=\"http:\/\/windows.com\">Windows.com<\/a> website and then download through the Windows Store.<\/p>\n<p>Among the new features introduced in Windows 8.1 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New \u201cLarge\u201d and \u201cSmall\u201d sizes for tiles on the start menu;<\/li>\n<li>the ability to snap up to 8 apps on the screen at any one time, where Windows 8\u2019s original Snap View feature only let users snap 2 apps at time;<\/li>\n<li>the re-introduction of the Start button.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the blog post announcing the preview, Microsoft warns that users on Windows RT that have a language pack installed should not install the preview for Windows RT 8.1 at this time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7BN0W7CONpw\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on Microsoft and Windows<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/80965-microsoft-to-bring-xbox-pc-games-to-apple-android-phones-report.html\"><strong>Microsoft to bring Xbox, PC games to Apple, Android phones: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hosting-storage\/80961-rivals-microsoft-and-oracle-team-up-for-push-into-cloud.html\"><strong>Rivals Microsoft and Oracle team up for push into cloud<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/80638-microsoft-reverses-position-on-xbox-one-internet-game-sharing.html\"><strong>Microsoft reverses position on Xbox One Internet, game sharing policies<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/79535-windows-8-1-ui-fixes-showcased.html\"><strong>Windows 8.1 UI fixes showcased<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/79061-windows-8-gets-start-button.html\"><strong>Windows 8 gets Start button<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A preview of the next version of Microsoft\u2019s Windows operating system has been announced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":79545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35,123,807,20139],"class_list":["post-81149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-headline","tag-microsoft","tag-windows","tag-windows-8-1-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81179,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81149\/revisions\/81179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}