{"id":97409,"date":"2014-02-24T13:44:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T11:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=97409"},"modified":"2014-02-24T14:28:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T12:28:22","slug":"windows-8-1-user-experience-fixes-promised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/97409-windows-8-1-user-experience-fixes-promised.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8.1 user experience fixes promised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a press conference at 2014 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft promised a number of changes to Windows 8.1 that it said will improve the user experience for non-touch users.<\/p>\n<p>While its blog post on the announcement didn\u2019t get into specifics, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/show\/7791\/microsofts-mobile-world-congress-2014-event-live-blog#post0223071400\" target=\"_blank\">Anandtech reported in its live blog of the event<\/a> that the power button would be coming to the front of the user interface.<\/p>\n<p>Easy app launching via the taskbar would also become available to keyboard and mouse users. The taskbar will reportedly appear by scrolling to the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft emphasised that none of the changes would impact the user experience for touch users.<\/p>\n<p>Another change coming with the spring update for Windows 8 is the ability to run on lower cost hardware, Microsoft said.<\/p>\n<p>Anandtech quoted Joe Belfiore, who runs the Windows Phone product definition and design team, as saying that Windows 8.1 was tuned for devices with 1GB RAM and 16GB of storage.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 338px;\" src=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Blogs\/NewsCenter\/Microsoft-s-Joe-Belfiore-and-Nick-Parker-discuss-Windows-and-Windows-Phone\/player?h=338&amp;w=600\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More software news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/97351-bbm-for-windows-phone-coming-to-nokia-lumia.html\"><strong>BBM for Windows Phone coming to Nokia Lumia<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/97339-apple-promises-fix-for-macs-with-failed-encryption.html\"><strong>Apple promises fix for Macs with failed encryption<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/97337-microsoft-to-cut-windows-8-price-by-70-percent-for-manufacturers.html\"><strong>Microsoft to cut Windows 8 price by 70 percent for manufacturers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/94761-windows-9-unveiled-in-april-report.html\"><strong>Windows 9 unveiled in April: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has promised a number of improvements to Windows 8.1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":77254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,23789,123,807,19781],"class_list":["post-97409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-joe-belfiore","tag-microsoft","tag-windows","tag-windows-8-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97409"}],"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=97409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97413,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97409\/revisions\/97413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}