Swipe sideways to scroll through themed collections, view top picks based on your previous selections, and launch movies from the large, but limited Watch Instantly collection. If you’re not a Hulu+ subscriber, you probably have a Netflix account, and on Windows 8 the browsing experience is excellent.
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The interface is similar to what you get on the Web and you can swipe to browse shows and movies before launching them full screen. Hulu Plus lets you sign in and watch all your favorite shows and movies straight from the Start menu. Since these two apps are so similar I’m cheating and counting them as one entry. It’s full-screen view of your video-call partner and good use of the Windows 8 touch interface and notifications are a great start, but you don’t get some Skype for desktop features like multi-party calling and screen sharing. The new Skype does integrate Windows Messenger, however. I was a little disappointed that the Skype app hadn’t implemented the Search charm, so I couldn’t use that to find someone among contacts. When you first run Skype, it will ask permission to use your webcam and to run in the background. 6 Essential Apps for New Windows RT and Surface Owners 1. So without further ado, here are our top 6 choices for the budding new operating system. Nor do we consider the included informational apps based on Bing-News, Finance, Sports, Maps, Weather, Travel, and the Bing app itself. We’re also ignoring any of the other very useful apps that come preloaded on all Windows 8 and Windows RT installations-Mail, People, Calendar, Games, Internet Explorer, Messaging, Photos, Music, SkyDrive, and Video. We don’t include what may be the most useful apps of all, because it comes included with Windows RT and the 2013 version for Windows 8 isn’t out yet. If this is an indication of the speed at which the Apps are going to keep coming, Windows user are going to be overwhelmed with choice.
There were only about 100 in the release preview, now there are tens of thousand. News reports say that the Windows Store in Windows 8 has “20,000 apps”, most of which are free, in its global store.
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