70K apps and free update to Windows 8.1

[HeyCori]

Now if only they could get a simple video and Photoshop style editing app for Windows RT.

Windows Keeps Getting Better

We now have more than 70,000 apps in the Windows Store (the online app store for Windows) – apps such as Twitter, eBay, Netflix, CNN and games like Temple Run: Brave, Bejeweled LIVE and Angry Birds Star Wars and many others.

As PCs continue to evolve for this world of mobile computing, so does Windows 8.

Today at the JP Morgan Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in Boston, Tami Reller shared with the audience that the update previously referred to as “Windows Blue” will be called Windows 8.1and will be a free update to Windows 8 for consumers through the Windows Store.

 

[Robert Carpenter]

The fact that the Windows 8.1 update is being distributed through the Windows Store says a lot. The Windows ecosystem will be what brings Microsoft back to the top and keeps them there. No one has an ecosystem that can compare. In a few years, Windows will be everywhere you look.

 

[berty6294]

Super stoked! And amen to the video and PhotoShop style app!

 

[ttsoldier]

Have we ever had to pay for a Windows Update?

 

[berty6294]

Have we ever had to pay for a Windows Update?

No, but I think it silences the silly rumors that it would come at a price!

 

[johninsj]

I use both arcsoft showbiz and cinelab for basic video editing on RT. Both work well enough.

 

[WanderingTraveler]

My school now has an excuse to put Win8 on all of our 200 computers. Let the upgrade commence!