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hello and welcome to inside scoop I'm Sumi das we are at bill 2013 this is the developer conference for Microsoft joining me is Josh Lowensohn senior writer for Cena Josh thanks for being with us my pleasure okay so we've just emerged from the keynote on day one yes almost two hours Steve Ballmer was there that's notable um not a lot of news though coming out of this keena really this was the first sort of preview that we've been able to get at windows 8.1 right yeah and you know if you're not familiar with Windows 8.1 it's not a complete rethink of window i stayed not an overhaul by anyway and I mean that's what the point one means it's basically taking some of the feedback they got from the first windows a release and really kind of changing things around one of those big changes is kind of making the software more useful for desktop users that means hooting people right to the home screen and adding the Start menu back hey so dark button they got a lot of cheers when they announced that they did and it's kind of weird because when windows a first came out it was this thing where they they changed everything they changed the design they change how you use all these features and I think they thought it was the way it was gonna be and I think they got some feedback from developers are like this is a little crazy at least from users to to radical Club absolutely ok so the start button is back any other tweaks that you found notable uh you know that they've really put being more in the front seat yeah that was an integral part of this keynote they were kept on talking about Bing absolutely and now it's kind of integrated so you can search the web you can also search your file all that stuff is really kind of populated I also pulled SkyDrive and people can now add more bing features to their apps they said that they can do that before but they've kind of made some changes where you can pull things like 3d maps and wikipedia articles all sorts of things from their search index the demoed voice search they kind of have this thing where where Apple thinks about Syria's their own little voice assistant they kind of pitched this thing more where the utility was inside the app so it didn't really matter what you're in you could tweet things to be more kind of conversational and useful any parts of the keynote would surprise you they gave me some really expensive hardware so he did it they gave developers an acer iconia tablet which was you know got a lot of shares tablet yeah people were not we're not expecting it's very new device and then later on it kind of brought back out a surface pro and everyone's like okay whatever service pro it's old news and they're like everybody gets one he's totally Oprah moment for a moment you get a surface um is this something that they've done in the past or they kind of taking a page out of the Google's book because they tend to give away a lot of hardware their developer conferences I would say two devices is definitely a lot especially when you think of some of the convergence possibly I mean both these are really kind of tablets and touch advices that work with keyboards so it's kind of surprising they would just kind of push both those things instead of giving like a phone and maybe a tablet or something that's what Google tends to do but I think they really want developers to like have as much windows 8 Action as they can to really tweak the wraps so I think doubling down and giving them two is kind of like not-so-subtly I'm like get working on apps right they want to see more ass obviously App Store all right okay Josh thanks so much I'm pleasure for inside scoop I'm Sumi das thanks for watching you