Introduction
Welcome
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
—T. S. Eliot
Thank you for purchasing or considering the purchase of Windows 8.1 In Depth. Windows 8.1 is Microsoft’s second iteration of an attempt to create an operating system that looks and acts the same across a variety of devices, from desktop PCs to tablets. Rather than taking Apple’s approach of having one OS for computers (OS X) and a second OS for tablets (iOS), Microsoft has engineered Windows 8 to run basically the same on both types of devices. To accomplish this task, Microsoft has created an entirely new interface and an entirely new style of program that can be manipulated ...
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