Steelyuhas
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Ah, looks like you have to be a paid Xbox Music member to use the site, shame.
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Windows 8 / RT |OT|
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Anton Sugar
Member
So music.xbox.com launched.
Seems to be working pretty well for me--much faster than old Zune web client.
Seems to be working pretty well for me--much faster than old Zune web client.
Chance Hale
Member
Can I safely install the new Nvidia drivers on 8.1?
Same with mine. Don't care anymore.
welp got it working. now just doing the big install and waiting.
hopefully won't be too much longer.
instead of "opening" the file, I saved it and then opened it from its folder. worked from there.
fingers crossed.
I don't know what causes that error, but I do know that a bunch of people have hit it internally so you're not alone. Should be fixed for the final version, whatever it is.
I worked around it.
Running 8.1 now.
Maybe spread the word that instead of just running the file, save it and open it through the folder...tried 3 times one way...did it that way and it worked.
Also, 8.1 is an awesome improvement on here.
What is replacing bing background? I love dynamic backgrounds on desktop...but I read that it's incompatible on this build.
One last thing, Skype really needs an update to take advantage of the new ways to split the screen.
Oh no.
LukasTaves
Member
This is looking incredible awesome!
Hopefully they will update the app in the preview before final hits.
they said you will have to wait for final. Same with the People, Calendar etc..
LukasTaves
Member
I think they have to be optimized for 8.1?
Yep, some new APIs developers can use to speed things up, such as what I mentioned in this post which isn't in the preview:
Good article explaining how SkyDrive works in 8.1. I have been impressed by the implementation.
http://arstechnica.com/information-...ws-8-1-cloud-storage-the-way-its-meant-to-be/
http://arstechnica.com/information-...ws-8-1-cloud-storage-the-way-its-meant-to-be/
so basically it's active directory in da cloud
TheBryanJZX90
Member
Man so I can have a documents library in the cloud but I can't have a music library on my NAS. Been waiting awhile to be able to use Xbox music on Win 8 with my mp3s on my network.
brotkasten
Member
I love how Google is always a step ahead of the competition. Ladies and gentlemen, the new multi tasking interface for the upcoming Android YouTube app, which lets you interact with the rest of the OS, while using the app. A system-wide implementation is in the works.
Your move, Microsoft.
Your move, Microsoft.
I really hope there will be a way to get rid of this shit. Who the fuck wants ads in their OS?
LukasTaves
Member
Yeah, I though this would be like the bitcasa client when I first read, but even in the preview it's already better.
I still can't use pictures on skydrive to be set as desktop wallpapper, but other than that everything is almost flawless now.
(But a maximum storage quota would indeed be awesome)
Mr. Wonderful
Member
Your move, Apple. Here we have both Android and Microsoft doing it, meanwhile Apple just revealed their big iOS update for the year and split-screen support/multitasking isn't a part of it. Obviously, they could release another update later this year, or maybe split screen like this doesn't fit their vision for iOS.
alexandros
Banned
After a few days of testing out the 8.1 beta, I feel that it's a step in the right direction. I appreciate the changes made to accomodate desktop users, and I've configured my PC to use the boot-to-desktop-option and disable the hot corners. The Start Screen with the All Apps option is ok as a Start Menu replacement, not ideal but I can live with it. As for the new ability to freely resize snapped Metro apps, that is one feature that I genuinely like. I would still like to see a ModernMix-type ability to use Metro apps in a window, it still baffles me that Microsoft hasn't enabled such a feature since Stardock showed it's quite easy to implement.
Overall, Windows 8.1 shows promise. I still think that it's not there yet as a full-featured hybrid OS, and I still feel it's imperative that Microsoft allows competing app stores in Metro, but from the perspective of a desktop user with 8.1 Windows 8 is now usable as the main OS on a desktop PC.
Overall, Windows 8.1 shows promise. I still think that it's not there yet as a full-featured hybrid OS, and I still feel it's imperative that Microsoft allows competing app stores in Metro, but from the perspective of a desktop user with 8.1 Windows 8 is now usable as the main OS on a desktop PC.
Which ones? for 8.1 Preview these are the latest, specifically tailored for 8.1:
http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/geforce_326_01_whql_windows_8_1_driver_download.html
What? Fuck you very much. Need more information on this but sounds terrible.
Is it really anything that bad. You do a web search and you get ads, like normal
The new smart search is default to search everywhere. So every search is a web search. So every search will show ads in my paid for OS. No thanks.
I think it will only do that when viewing the web results. From what I saw every search is a web search if you click/press into another layer after the regular search.
derExperte
Member
Btw, there are a few new updates out now: http://www.neowin.net/news/first-batch-of-windows-81-preview-updates-rolling-out Search should be faster for example.
It won't show ads in the actual OS, only if you choose to perform a web search from within the search results. I'll just quote dLMN8R from another thread:
If you're doing search in the same way as Vista/Win7/Win8, there are no ads. Just instant results along the side of the screen.
The ads appear if you're doing a full web search.
Here's an example if I simply search for "Word", there are no ads. Just a pane that shows up on the right-hand side of the screen:
If you scroll down past all your local content, you see auto-suggestions for web content:
If you click on one of the web results, it loads a web search, which just like every web search on earth, might show you an ad:
derExperte
Member
But they have to offer the option to change the search provider or they'll get in trouble for anticompetitive behaviour again I think. If it was only search, okay, but now with ads there's no way Google & Co won't complain.
Anton Sugar
Member
NM, don't want to be a dick. I'll just say that having ads in a web search doesn't bug me at all. If they appeared in other parts of the app, that would suck.
ads have been in the OS since 8. Haven't seen an ad blocker for them yet though, i'm sure someone will figure it out at some point.
eh not so sure anymore. When you think of the entire computing market (smartphone, tablet, laptop and desktop), Microsoft does not have a dominate share anymore so I think they could argue that in court. Smartphones are powerful enough to be a threat to traditional pcs now, just have to design an OS around mouse and keyboard for it and output the phone to a bigger monitor and plug in keyboard and mouse and there you go. This is not 1998 anymore where the computing market was mainly desktop PCs and a few laptops, all running windows.
LukasTaves
Member
Tabs in the bottom are probably for mouse users: Less travel between the address bar and tabs.
And, you can still search for apps using the search charm. The everywhere which is the default, prioritizes apps, so the apps matches from the search always come before anything else.
MrGreencastle
Member
Not really a fan, either, but it's probably more muscle memory than anything. On my Surface I'm used to holding a link and opening in a new tab, which brings up the menu + open tabs. It's nitpicky, but the way I hold the tablet I can't continue scrolling because the tab list is in the way now. That's really the only reason I don't like it haha.
Yeah I really don't care about the ads to be honest, but that feature removal sucks
LukasTaves
Member
Oh, you mean searching inside the apps from anywhere? Yeah, it sucks that this is gone, the new search everywhere at least for now doesn't cover that very well, because you have to keep scrolling to see if the app you wanted found anything.
Edit: Not to mention sometimes they won't show up at all, for instance, if I search for xbox i get results from the store, but not for twitter
You can still do it using the drop-down over the search box:
And I *thought* that Windows 8 apps (vs. updated/new Windows 8.1 apps that use new functionality) automatically default to that app-specific search instead of universal search, but I could be mistaken. It'll probably be tweaked for the final version to be more consistent with Win8, at least.
You can still do it using the drop-down over the search box:
And I *thought* that Windows 8 apps (vs. updated/new Windows 8.1 apps that use new functionality) automatically default to that app-specific search instead of universal search, but I could be mistaken. It'll probably be tweaked for the final version to be more consistent with Win8, at least.
It seems like you only get a choice of the active app though, no?
Yes, they need to switch that back. The old way was better. I used that search feature with the Wikipedia app all the time.
Not like before though. I used it to search lastpass, and that no longer works at all. You can't specify which app to search apart from ie.
They need to bring in app specific search back, that was one of my favourite features.