For example, you can sync all messages or only those sent and received in a given time period. On the plus side, it still handles multiple email accounts (although not yet POP or IMAP ones) and has some great new features, such as the ability to customize how each account syncs email. On the other hand, the update to the Mail app has both good and bad points. You can customize the news you read by selecting from news sources - and you've got close to 200 to choose from in a wide variety of categories, including not just national but also regional news sources. It's an exceedingly useful travel hub.īing News works like the other new Bing apps, and serves as a central news hub. You can pin information to the Start Menu as well. You can also right-click the screen to pull down a toolbar that lets you book flights and hotels and get more information about destinations. The Sports app lets you choose what sports and teams you want to follow.īing Travel does more than just tell you about travel destinations, offer travel news and let you view spectacular travel photos. (Not that it's perfect - I couldn't make Bing Sports find all the news and results related to the 2012 French Open tennis tournament currently under way.) All in all, it's a slickly designed, useful app. Like other Windows 8 apps, it grabs information so that you don't need to go out and find it yourself. In Sports, you can customize settings to follow your favorite sports and individual teams. But they remain a mixed bag.Īmong the new apps are Bing Sports, Bing Travel and Bing News, and all of them are winners - beautifully designed and easy to use. Previously released Metro apps have been improved and some very nifty new ones have been introduced. The new complement of Metro apps in the Release Preview shows that, even on desktops and laptops, Windows 8 could do well in a world in which information is pushed to the user. It is expected to first see the light of day when Windows 8 ships, later this year.Īs with the Consumer Preview, Windows 8 Release Preview still feels like two operating systems co-existing somewhat uneasily, rather than a cohesive whole: the visually-oriented and tablet-oriented Metro interface on one side and the old Desktop interface, for more traditional computers, on the other. Even though Microsoft has said that it is killing the Aero interface and replacing it with a flatter-looking one, that new look has not been implemented in the Release Preview. Still missing is the final form of what the Desktop will look like when the operating system ships later this year.
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