“If I was to put it in coffee terms, ‘Why don’t you go and refine the blend here?’ Let’s remix the desktop and your modern application experience. Let’s balance them better,” said Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft.

The OS will also include the unified search options for applications and files in one tool, rather than in separate search bars. Bing, naturally, will play a front-and-center role in the refreshed operating system, given that search is becoming a bigger feature in Windows.

And there also will be Internet Explorer integrated in to the new platform, and it’s been optimized for touch, the feature that will give the browser a slight edge against its competitors like Chrome and Firefox.  Tighter integration with the cloud will help the users for easy access of Office 365, SkyDrive and the Windows Store.

To sum it all, Windows 8.1 is what you aspired Windows 8 should have been. 

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