The company has rolled out updates for some built-in apps in Windows 8. In a blog post, Microsoft gave details about the updates, with Skydrive, mail, messaging, photos, maps, news, travel, weather and Bing among the apps getting additional functionality.
Here are the details of which apps are getting the update:
These updates can be downloaded from the Windows Store. Anyone currently running Windows 8 RTM will get the notification, or can head to the Store and download the updates for free. Microsoft also clarifies that new PCs will come shipped with a version of Windows 8 that will already have these updates on-board. These updates have been shared with PC makers.
The Bing search app with be the first to get the update within the next couple of days, while the rest of the updates will be released in a staggered fashion till the 26th of October. This comes much ahead of the official launch later this month.
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