Windows 8.1, can it be a lifeline for Microsoft?

Computer Store News: If you talk about the greatest operating system in Microsoft history, then non-Windows XP is the only one. But if you talk about the most popular operating system, then Win 7 is definitely well deserved.

But after Apple's iOS and Google Android successively completed the occupation of the tablet and mobile phone market, Microsoft's position in the field of smart device operating systems has been seriously threatened.

On October 25, 2012, Microsoft released a new operating system, Win8. Now less than a year, the installed growth rate of Win8 is much lower than that of the previous generation operating system Win7.

Microsoft released Win 8.1, which is what we called SP1 before. It should be known that after the release of Win7 in 2009, the Sp1 patch was released two years later in October 2011. The short interval of Win8.1 release broke Microsoft's consistently stable strategic characteristics.

Can Win 8.1 be a lifeline for Microsoft?

“Start button“Unresolved "Old user" & "New market" tangled

Whether you are an Android or Apple user, then you are familiar with the device There must be only one home screen on the interface. However, there are two on Win8. In the case of touch, the interface starts to exist more as the user's main interface, while on the traditional PC, the old Windows interface is used as the main interface. Nowadays, the reason for calling back the key is nothing more than giving the old user a “sweet date”. Some users should follow the installation, because many people think that the biggest problem with the existing interface is that the keyboard and mouse operate at the same time. People have a headache.

It can be said that although Microsoft has compromised users, it still needs the market to test the effect.

Strengthen the WindowsUI interface to simplify the operation Win 8.1 is no longer split

In fact, the change in the use of Win 8.1 in the whole is the ease of use of the WindowsUI interface, first like WP8, The WindowsUI interface supports the custom size and functionality of the magnet, and secondly the settings appear in the WindowsUI interface to greatly improve the ease of setup.

In Win 8, you have to use the traditional control panel. Adjust the computer settings, if you are a computer veteran, there should be no difficulty; but for most tablet users, the settings should be done in the WindowsUI interface, Win 8 did not work well before, all operations All need to go back to the operation panel similar to Win 7, and not to mention how difficult the operation is, just use a finger to touch a few millimeters of touch bar to make people feel collapse.

In the Win8.1 preview, this part of the option settings is still a slightly confusing form of hybridization, but fortunately already aware of this part of the problem, users may be more inclined in complex menus Search directly for the settings you want to adjust, but if you just want to change the screen resolution or know the remaining battery capacity of your computer, you can still intuitively learn through the new options in 8.1.

The new magnet function is more of a personalized option. More magnet effects allow users to get personalized desktop effects. In addition, the WindowsUI interface can use traditional Windows interface wallpapers. The two interfaces finally don't look so "split".

Can Internet Explorer 11 reverse the downside?

The Internet Explorer 11 browser looks very similar to IE10, but the long-lasting tab interface has finally moved to the bottom, and the ability to synchronize tags with Win 8.1 devices and Windows Phone has been added. At the same time, IE 11 also began to support WebGL in terms of performance, and allowed the site to create a separate dynamic tile module that users can add to the start screen and get RSS updates.

But unfortunately, in the same Win 8.1 operating system, IE 11 still has two versions of the desktop and WindowsUI, and the tag synchronization function can not be used between the two versions, which is concerned with Win 8.1 The cloud synchronization feature is out of place and can be confusing to users. When you browse the website under the WindowsUI interface and save it to the label, it will not exist when the traditional interface is opened. I don't know what you think, but since the browser that supports Win 8.1 is not much, IE11 will It is one of your few choices.

The whole Windows8 will always see a split Windows8

In fact, Microsoft's small abacus can be seen from the Windows8 release. In the PC market, the environment is not good today. Mouse-controlled design is nothing more than hope that users can't stand it and follow Microsoft's upgrade to replace the PC to capture the market faster, but unfortunately, the early generations of processors provided by Intel as "teammates" have been completely in performance. Can support Windows 8, but because of this design many old users are reluctant to upgrade.

So overall, from the upgrade of Win 8.1, Microsoft has realized the weak links of the product and improved it. Although the upgrade of Windows 8.1 is not very significant, it represents Microsoft's step-by-step refinement of Win 8 system to provide users with a better experience.

But in essence, Microsoft still can't solve its own entanglement between touch products and mouse control products. And there won't be much change before the end of Win8, so you will always see a split Win 8. Until the next generation of operating systems, or Microsoft Education users to adapt to this split, or Win8 fiasco Microsoft compromised the development of two versions of Windows corresponding to touch devices and mouse control devices. Regardless, I won't choose to update to the Win 8 operating system until this era.