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hey guys this is tom warren with the verge and we're looking at the acer w free 8-inch tablet here and this is running on windows 8.1 and so you can see we've got it in portrait mode here and mike's learn a few improvements here just to make it a little bit easier to use these sort of tablets and so you'll get the sort single application view here and then if you did want to use it horizontally you could then snap apps side-by-side basically the older limit has been removed and which used to be a resolution limit and now you can literally just use apps alongside each other and and change the actual snap in there and in terms of portrait mode it doesn't always seem to to rotate automatically if you've got apps open it seems like you need to like move the apps back into the full screen to get out to change i dint us a bug with 8.1 in the moment but much has changed to stall so it's working in portrait mode and was previously with for shooting tourism tool mode so all of their apps will now fully support this portrait experience other than that's not too much to say I mean it's standard sort of eight point one but it you know it's obviously running on these small devices that are going to come to markets or late this year on the opposite end of the scale and we've got the toshiba kirabook here which has a resolution of 2560 x 1440 and michael basically done a few DPI changes here and just till it sort of the UI controls minimally little bit easier to grab with your finger now it basically does it automatically depending on the screen resolution and screen size and you can change it independently and you can scale up to two hundred percent or hundred fifty percent but I d 4 is going to be automatic now what this really means is we can click into sort stuff like Windows Explorer and you find like folders are a lot easier to tap on the ribbon a little bit easier to manage and sort of hitting the the X in the corner day is just a lot easier even in applications so some of the windows applications you'll see that all the elements are slightly enlarged just a little bit easier to just sort of use on a touchscreen now the this is obviously going to be dependent on app developers actually updating their apps but Mike's doing some sort scaling there to improve things and the final scenario is an 11-inch devices so we got an Acer Aspire s7 and this is running at 1920 x 1080 and basically before and it was really unusable basically on the desktop unless unless you had it set a specific scale resolution and obviously might ship the surface pro better DPI and scaling but now it's obviously scaling correctly and by itself so again the elements are easy to click on and a final improvement with all these desktop changes is the on-screen keyboard in a desktop mode will actually be a lot bigger on depending on what device you're using so it depends on the screen size and OEMs can sort set that and but much less tells us that it will basically be up to the computer makers to make the screen that to make the keyboard a lot bigger and and obviously this is running at 1920 x 1080 and before it would be sort of all the way down here and kind of unusable it's a look a lot better here and that was a quick look at the 8-inch devices all the way up to high res displays on a Windows 8.1 you