- 1. Lock screen is a cloud powered photo frame, pulling through photos from your phone, tablet & PC through your SkyDrive.
- 2. Start Button is back!
- 3. Boot to desktop
- 4. Flexible tile sizes
- Tile sizes – large, wide, medium, small
- Larger tiles show more information
- Smaller tiles make for a more efficient Start Screen, allowing you to make your Start Screen look the way you want it to
- 5. Improved All App screen
- Swipe up from the Start Screen to see all the apps on your PC
- You can sort this list to see your most used apps, or sort by category like ‘Games’ or ‘News’, or by most recently installed or alphabetical
- 6. Ability to select & move multiple tiles at once
- Once you have selected the apps you want to move, you can pick them all up at the same time & move them to where you want. You can then name the group so that you have a Start Screen that looks just the way you want it to.
- 7. Improved personalisation
- Able to select from a whole rainbow of colours now, so you can match your background colour to your favourite sports team or choose your favourite colour
- Also added awesome new motion accents (like a dragon or a fish etc.) that follow your finger and move in the background as you move through the Start Screen
- Added the ability to let you choose to put the desktop wallpaper right behind the Start Screen to make the transition less jarring and more seamless
- 8. Enhanced Search
- Search across your PC, SkyDrive, and the web at the same time
- Perform time-saving actions on your results without leaving search
- Beautiful web results display page previews without opening your browser
- 9. SkyDrive integration
o 8.1 is powered by the cloud, and an important part of this is SkyDrive, which gives you heaps of space to put all your files up in the cloud so they’re available on every PC
o Within every app on the PC you can see the option to save to SkyDrive, which lets you put things in the cloud and there is also the option to save to ‘This PC’ which lets me keeps things that you just want to keep on this PC in a single place.
10. Multitasking
o Ability to run 2, 3 or even 4 apps on the one screen at the one time
