Windows 8.1 RTM hands-on experience-what improvements are compared to Windows 8?

From Windows 8 RTM to Windows 8.1RTM, just a year later, Win8 's father, Sinofsky, was retiring and Ballmer was about to retire, and what improvements did the system itself have?

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Windows 8.1 Code Blue is Microsoft's improvement over Windows 8. 27th Night, Microsoft officially announced the completion of the Windows 8.1 RTM version, and has been paid to OEM manufacturers.

But this year, Microsoft declined to provide developers with the latest version of Windows 8.1, and then Microsoft said that developers can only wait until mid-October until the new version of the system, Windows 8.1 RTM Enterprise Edition and Professional Edition have been leaked out. Some netizens downloaded and used the 64-bit Windows 8.1 RTM Enterprise Edition at the first time. So what are the improvements to this 8.1 RTM compared to Windows 8 a year ago?

The installation of Win 8.1 and the previous win 8 installation is the same either method or process, except that the installation process is only possible if you choose a custom setting you can see some of the Win8 features in advance.

Win8.1 has added a slideshow feature on the lock screen, and the default is open. Often in their own computer with 18+only pictures of children's shoes attention, the following picture is a use of Win8.1 Preview version of the children's shoes to leave the lock screen interface (after processing photos), the day passed by the computer before me and my little friends were stunned.

In addition, Win8.1 also supports setting desktop wallpaper as a lock screen and adding more colors and background images to your personalization settings.

After being spit out by countless people in Windows 8.1, Microsoft finally added the "Start button" back, and then caused countless people to spit. Because of the addition of the "Start button" ordinary left-click is still up to the previous Win8 in the lower left corner of the traditional desktop and Metro interface switch function, only the right key to a bunch of difficult to identify the function menu, not most people want, not even better. Start button in three states

1. Can hide

The biggest improvement in Win8.1 RTM is the option to skip, the right taskbar, and the Second tab in the pop-up taskbar and navigation Properties menu to see more of the boot to the traditional desktop instead of the Win8 mandatory first jump to the start screen.

2. Add New size Tiles

In the previous Windows 8, there were only squares (150x150 px) and rectangular (310x150 px) tiles, while in Windows 8.1 new small magnets (70x70 px) and large magnetic pastes (310x310 px) were added. The original square tile has been redefined as a medium tile, so there are small, medium, rectangular and senior types of magnetic paste styles in Windows 8.1. Is there a feeling from Windows Phone 7.5 to Windows Phone 7.8?

3. Pointing arrows

For the convenience of mouse users, Windows 8.1 adds a small downward button on the start screen that is hidden by default and appears when your user clicks the mouse over the screen. Click on it to go down to the "all apps" screen, again, with the small button up, click Back to the Start screen. (Note: For a touchscreen, a new gesture function is added to the Start screen, and when the start screen slides up, it goes directly to the all Apps screen.) Windows Phone 8 returns to Windows 7.8?

4. Cancel the Desktop program tiles

Each installation of a desktop program or Metro application in the previous WIN8 will add all the icon tiles to the start screen, and a long start screen will be "miserable", especially if you are installing VS or SQL Server apps, which can make you crash. In Win8.1, both the new application and the program will no longer appear on the Start screen unless you manually set (right-click to the screen in the application list).

Win 8.1 's traditional desktop and Win8 are basically the same, only the File Explorer default interface has been adjusted, in addition to "My Computer" renamed "This Computer", but also the previous "library" to the definition of "folder" (right button actually can also see "library").

In the WIN8 for a major feature of the application affixed to the Win8.1 has been a new improvement, compared to the previous only in 1366 * 768 resolution screen applications and only 1024 pixels of the main screen application interface and 320 pixel auxiliary screen two types of style, the new application to rely on more flexible, It can be dragged at will, depending on the size of the application (which means there is no limit to the resolution), as shown below.

Search has also been slightly modified in Win8.1, the new search has integrated applications, files, settings, Web images, web video and other sources, search results more comprehensive.

1. Home Add free list, new release list, select list New, classification more comprehensive and reasonable. In addition, page layout is more tidy and orderly.

2. Apply Automatic Update

The image above is an application update for WIN8, and each application update needs to be verified manually. In Windows 8, the system will automatically perform an application update operation. In addition, iOS users are not familiar with this feature, because the latest iOS 7 has added similar features.

The Internet Explorer version number in Win8.1 has been updated to IE 11, so what are the improvements and new features of IE 11 compared to the IE 10来 in Win8?

1. Pre-loading and storage cache

Prior to the mention of IE and chrome, many people feel that chrome is significantly faster than IE to load Web pages. In fact, Chrome is faster than IE in addition to the kernel and JS engine, preload functions, such as some practical small functions also accounted for a large number of factors.

In IE11, Microsoft has finally learned the same technology as Chrome. Microsoft's new feature is called pre-rendering and prefetching, as well as the ability to load the contents of a Web page that might be open before the user accesses the previous page into the back-end memory. If the user does not open the target page within five minutes or opens another page, or switches to another tab browser, the preloaded page contents are purged from memory.

In addition to preload, there is a backward navigation caching feature, starting with IE 11, when users leave pages that meet specific criteria, the system caches them. If the user returns to the page later, the page is recovered from the cache, instead of being reloaded from the server as if it had been purged from memory, as previously used IE.

2. Newly reconstructed F12 developer tools

A powerful development tool for Web site developers is one of the main factors that attract them to use a browser, the most representative of which may be the firebug in Firefox and the subsequent Chrome browser's built-in development tools (right-button review element pull).

And this latest IE 11, according to the official version of the new refactoring F12 development tools, a more clean and tidy interface, in addition to a new response, memory simulation and other improvements. (Extended reading: How to use the F12 Developer tool)

3. Support SPDY

This article is only a simple trial of the Windows 8.1 RTM Enterprise version of the experience, described only for some of the more obvious interface and functional improvements, in addition to the above mentioned, Win8.1 still have a lot of updates and improvements, want to experience the words quickly to taste it.