October 16, 2013
How Bing built Smart Search for Windows 8.1

One of the coolest and most visible improvements to Windows 8.1 is its improved integration of Bing, and to give you some background on that, Blogging Windows published a guest post on Wednesday by Kieran Snyder, group program manager in the Bing User Experience team.

October 15, 2013
SkyDrive and Windows 8.1: The road to smart files and more

The Inside SkyDrive blog recently introduced smart files in Windows 8.1, which allow you to have your files always with you while being unconstrained by storage capacity on your devices. On Tuesday, Blogging Windows followed up with a post by Adam Czeisler, development manager on the SkyDrive team in Windows Services.

October 8, 2013
Developers: Make sure your Windows 8.1 apps target the correct version of WinJS

Windows 8.1 release is Oct. 18 and savvy developers are busy getting their app code ready for the big day. However, as the Windows App Builder Blog points out, if you’re building apps using HTML and JavaScript, you’ll want to make sure your Windows 8.1 apps are targeting the correct version of WinJS 2.0.