{"id":51879,"date":"2013-09-30T11:34:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T09:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=51879"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:07:55","slug":"watch-the-new-windows-8-1-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/watch-the-new-windows-8-1-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the new Windows 8.1 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <strong>October 18th<\/strong>, Windows 8 users will be able to update to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/hands-on-with-windows-8-1-preview\">Windows 8.1<\/a><\/strong>. It&#8217;s a major update with lots of improvements addressing some of the criticisms the radical operating system has received since it&#8217;s release last year.<\/p>\n<p>A new ad showcases the new features, like the returning Start Button and greater personalization options. Various apps are getting a facelift, including the <strong>Windows Store<\/strong> and <strong>Xbox Music<\/strong>, and there are new apps like <strong>Bing Food &amp; Drink<\/strong> and <strong>Health &amp; Fitness<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<div>\nDefault player\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\nBy use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C \nfound at https:\/\/accounts.brightcove.com\/en\/terms-and-conditions\/. \n--><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nThis script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon\nas the line is read by the browser. If you wish to have the player instantiated only after\nthe rest of the HTML is processed and the page load is complete, remove the line.\n--><br \/>\nbrightcove.createExperiences();<\/p>\n<p><!-- End of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<p>The much talked about return of the <strong>Start Button<\/strong> is not what you might think. The new Start Button gives you an easy way to switch between the classic and Modern UI desktops, but it doesn&#8217;t bring up the extensive menu Windows users are used to. One of the most popular changes in Windows 8.1 could be the option to <strong>start the system in classic desktop<\/strong>, instead of the tiled Modern UI.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more about Windows 8.1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/more-details-about-windows-8-1-update\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More details about Windows 8.1 update<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/startisgone-removes-the-start-button-from-windows-8-1\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> StartIsGone removes the Start button from Windows 8.1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/microsoft-concedes-windows-8-1-now-available-on-msdn-and-technet\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft concedes, Windows 8.1 now available on MSDN and TechNet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/hands-on-with-windows-8-1-preview\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hands on with Windows 8.1 Preview<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-8\/everywhere?ocid=Everywhere_O_WOL_Hero_Home_WinEverywhere_Pos1_01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 18th, Windows 8 users will be able to update to Windows 8.1. It&#8217;s a major update with lots of improvements addressing some of the criticisms the radical operating system has received since it&#8217;s release last year. A new ad showcases the new features, like the returning Start Button and greater personalization options. Various &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/watch-the-new-windows-8-1-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Watch the new Windows 8.1 video&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2564],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-51879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwindows-8"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332100,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51879\/revisions\/332100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51879"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=51879"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=51879"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=51879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}