Windows 8 Release Preview: New Metro apps

Starting with some of the more major changes Microsoft’s made this time around, the engineering team has added a few more native apps and a trio of Bing-powered hubs: travel, sports and news. Across all the apps – - even the ones that aren’t new – - Microsoft unified the look of the app bar that drops down from the top of the screen. The options are app-specific, of course (favorite sports and trending news, for instance), but the look of the icons doesn’t change. Now that we’ve got that cosmetic tweak out of the way, let’s jump into the new apps.