Microsoft Official Release Windows8.1 preview version

Absrtact: local time in Wednesday, Microsoft officially released the Windows8.1 preview at the San Francisco Build developer conference, the first beta version of the win-dows8.1 system, the biggest highlight of which is the restoration of the familiar Start button for traditional PC users, and allows

local time in Wednesday, Microsoft officially released the Windows8.1 preview at the San Francisco Build developer conference, the first beta version of the win-dows8.1 system, the biggest "bright spot" for restoring the Familiar "Start" button for traditional PC users, and allows users to log on directly to the desktop interface. This change has been warmly welcomed by traditional PC users, even peers can not help but praise, "Microsoft finally from heaven back to earth."

Wei Qing, general manager of Microsoft Greater China's Windows products division, said, "It's not a compromise, it's respect, it's an expectation, and expect users to slowly appreciate the benefits of the new interface." He says the "Start" button for recovery is just a little "trick" for engineers, not the "Start" button that everyone imagines. From Microsoft's entanglement of the Start button, it does not give up Win8 's vision.

WINDOWS8 users do not pay by Microsoft's high hopes Win-dows8, listing has been surrounded by various cynicism. Microsoft had hoped to embrace the era of touch, the biggest change since the advent of the Windows operating system. However, because the change is too big, the traditional PC user does not adapt to this, many users choose to return to Windows7 after trial. Adding this change to traditional desktops and laptops is not much use, so many PC users shouted "No touch, please stay away" ...

Clearly, Microsoft is aware of the seriousness of the problem. When Mr. Ballmer announced the "Start" button at the build developer conference, the warm applause at the Windows8.1 back was enough to show how unpopular Microsoft's changes were before. However, win-dows8.1 is not simply a return to the "Start" button. It also dramatically improves search capabilities across the entire system, deeply integrates SkyDrive cloud computing synchronization and management services, provides better multitasking capabilities, and the new system supports 3D printers. This series of moves shows that Microsoft listens to the user opinion, completes the new system transformation. And so on the formal test, WINDOWS8 users can upgrade free of charge.

"A natural transition is harder."

June 28, in the Microsoft Office in Guangzhou, Wei Qing and Guangzhou media on the WINDOWS8 and Windows8.1 preview version of a two-hour communication, the meeting Wei Qing repeatedly stressed the theme is "hope that users look at Microsoft in the future."

"The debate about turning from the keyboard to the mouse and the argument that the keyboard and mouse turn into touch today are the same." Maybe next year no one will talk about touch, this is the development of history. "Wei Qing, who has worked in Microsoft for 10 years, has used a lot of similar examples to try to convince users that Microsoft's changes and upgrades are necessary," the habit once formed will never go back, and now it's hard to see the XP system. ”

For users to ask questions, why each upgrade can not let the user's habit of natural transition it?

Wei Qing's answer is that this is more difficult. In his view, Windows 8 is a human-computer interface to the surface, from the mouse keyboard to touch screen including body sense, similar to the switch from keyboard to mouse, this is the future trend.

It's really tangled. "Start" button

The tangle of the "Start" button always runs through the communication Conference, for example, this group of data, according to the Flurry2012 of the Mobile Analytics agency, shows that people spend 127 minutes a day on apps, and Wei Qing will give an example, "it's impossible to apply such a huge traditional start button today." ”

He thinks that the return "Start" button is the previous upgrade, more efficient, is actually just a little "tips" engineers, not everyone imagined the "Start" button. In addition, after the boot can also be up to the desktop, rather than a boot to face more suitable for the touch action device of the Metro dynamic brick interface. But he thinks it's not a compromise, but a technique of respect, "the New Start button still shows that we're moving in the same direction." ”

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has also said that Windows 8.1 represents the new philosophy of Microsoft, which combines the needs of both operational devices and desktop devices, "and the change that our company faces is more quickly updated." "he said.

He also believes that this will become Microsoft's new normal.