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windows 8.1 is the hot new operating system from Microsoft that's designed to appease and improve upon some of the criticisms that last year's Windows 8 was met with there are many changes in Windows 8.1 some of them you'll love and some of them you might hate this is Adam Lane from PocketNow and in this video I'm going to talk about the eight themes that I love about Windows 8.1 but be sure to also check out the eight things I hate about Windows 8.1 number one I can use professional programs on a tablet there are many other tech reviewers who slam Windows 8 because it can run existing professional grade programs in a separate desktop environment and their design doesn't match Windows 8's new touch friendly Metro design language I say who cares the fact that you can pick up the stylus or plug in a laptop style keyboard in order to get real work done on such a mobile and touch friendly tablet is a huge advantage to speed instability Windows 8.1 is the fastest most secure and most stable version of Windows ever I didn't think it could get much better than Windows 7 ones but it has three flexible snapping window panes on more screen resolutions when does they originally only allowed you to snap to apps on the screen at a time in a specific ratio and only on specific screen resolution sizes with Windows 8.1 the multitasking from Metro apps is much more flexible number four tabs syncing in Internet Explorer this feature has been on other browsers for a while but now it can access all the open web pages that are active on each of your PC's associated with your Microsoft ID it doesn't sync them per se but there's a pop-up menu that allows you to choose which PCs browser sessions they want to load number 5 use your profile cloud sync if you log into Windows 8.1 with a Microsoft ID you can allow it to save all sorts of your customizations passwords app data language preferences etc to your SkyDrive number 6 the app listing has some great new sorting features you can now sort all apps by date installed or most used in addition to by name or category number 7 the reading lists this is an app that shows up in the share charm for many of the Metro apps it's basically a bookmarking system for everything and it gets synced across all of your Windows 8.1 devices so say you see a few interesting articles on your home PC but you don't have time to read them right now you can add them to your reading lists and access them later from your Windows tablet or laptop while on the go number 8 global search and Bing integration with Windows 8 the search charm was very context-sensitive it mainly let you search the active app that you're in but allow you to also search other apps or content types by choosing the other options in the list and what does 8.1 that search - launch method is gone and the search charm defaults to searching everything in other words it's no longer contact sensitive and individual apps need to add their own search buttons now but the new surgical builders are still pretty awesome thanks for watching and don't forget to also watch the 8 things I hate about Windows 8.1