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In case you missed the update, because I nearly did, Microsoft brings better Bing apps to Windows 8. They dropped yesterday, but I'm just getting round to them today. I love `em. The search engine is hugely underrated compared to Google, and the core services look so damn good<\/i> and feel even better from a touchscreen.<\/p>\n
In a self-aggrandizing post<\/a>, the Bing team describes core apps Finance, Maps, News, Sports, Travel and Weather as \"immersive vertical experiences\". I so totally agree. Modern UI offers the most<\/i> immersive experience on tablets, for fully-supporting apps. Microsoft claims that they \"were designed from the ground up to embrace speed and touch providing you with a fast, fluid and consistent way to delve into your interests and get things done\".<\/p>\n As a user, three of the updates are most useful -- News, Maps and Weather. I don't invest, have limited sports interest and don't travel enough.<\/p>\n News.<\/strong> Bloggers and some news sites obsess over Google News, using every trick imaginable to get placement, hoping for surge that can deliver tens of thousands of pageviews in minutes. Hell, I never look at the thing. Google News is a drug habit. I won't be addicted. <\/p>\n But Bing News is fanciful for increasing utility. Just as Google dumps RSS and sends Reader to the executioner, Microsoft supports feeds, and offline reading. Yeah, I'll give Bing News a look hard looksee.. Oh yeah, there's support for alerts, something else getting the big Google boot.<\/p>\n Maps.<\/strong> Google is hard to beat in this area, but Bing is no slouch, either. Microsoft adds more real-time information, which makes getting around lots better -- well, I say from first-blush look. I need to get out on the road to say for certain.<\/p>\n Weather.<\/strong> Microsoft's app is my favorite from anybody. Weather information is well-presented -- and lots of it. The thing is so damn immersive, I get sucked in looking for stuff everytime I open it. The new dynamically roaming weather maps are chock full of useful information.<\/p>\n In case you missed the update, because I nearly did, Microsoft brings better Bing apps to Windows 8. They dropped yesterday, but I’m just getting round to them today. I love `em. The search engine is hugely underrated compared to Google, and the core services look so damn good and feel even better from a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38f8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/img><\/a>
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