Windows 8.1 Update 1: screenshots surfaced show improvements in desktop mode

The release of Windows 8.1 Update 1 is expected at the time about the Build developer conference - so in early April. It will bring an approach to the mobile OS Windows Phone, whose next edition should also be present at build - although possibly only in the form of a trial or preview.

The screenshots of WZor show that (formerly Metro) can be pinning on the desktop taskbar Windows Store apps. Whether the app would run when you click on the desktop or hijack the user in the Metro environment, you can not see it unfortunately. The transition between the two would be so or so relieved. Especially users who prefer to work in the traditional desktop mode and with accessibility features such as keyboard and mouse, so would get a help.

Paul Thurrott has already been reported on Windows Super Site, Microsoft will allow users with an update, ModernUI / Metro style apps run in windows on the desktop - and not only in full-screen mode. In addition, it should be another kind Start menu - and a way to ModernUI / Metro apps to close by mouse click, as is the case with desktop windows. However, all three changes are not found in Windows 8.1 Update 1, but only in a later update - either in 2014 or 2015 with threshold or Windows 9

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