The native Video app, unfortunately, places more emphasis on selling you premium a la cartedigital downloads than actually displaying your video library. The modern UI found in Windows 8 seems tailor-made for watching videos, with its emphasis on full-screen windows and large, touch-friendly controls.
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Netflix or Hulu Plus (or both!) The modern UI’s tiles seem tailor-made for Netflix. Plus, the app keeps streaming while docked or minimized, which can be a hassle if you try streaming music in-browser with the modern version of IE10.
Those excellent ad-supported stations can be streamed for free, forever, while upping to a $10 per month subscription opens on-demand listening for Slacker’s entire catalog. Slacker’s Windows 8 app is gorgeous example of modern UI design, and its 200-plus stations cover the width and breadth of the musical landscape, with each curated by an honest-to-goodness, flesh-and-blood DJ. Instead of relying of Microsoft’s native Music app -which only grants you 6 months of unlimited gratis tunes and doesn’t play well with non-Microsoft devices-head to the Windows Store and download the Slacker Radio app, instead. Slacker Radio Your Slacker Radio setup carries over to (and from) Slacker apps on other platforms. It’s a great way to get a hang for the OS gradually.
In addition to corralling a big list of controls, tips, and all-around useful knowledge in the app itself, Windows 8 Cheat Keys pops up random notifications throughout the day to keep the new controls fresh in your mind.
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Some manufacturers include proprietary Windows 8 tutorials into their boxed PCs-most notably Vizio’s helpful full-color manual and Dell’s preinstalled video tutorial app-but if yours does not, check out the free Windows 8 Cheat Keys app.
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