While Windows 8’s style prefers full-screen applications, you can also “snap” an app to the side of the screen. You can also share selected text in other apps to Wikipedia - for instance to do a quick lookup on a subject while you were reading a web page. With just a swipe and a tap, you can send a link to the article you’re reading to email, social networks, or note-taking apps to save them for later. Like our Android phone application, Windows 8 supports a pluggable “sharing” system. On a laptop or desktop device with a keyboard, you can simply start typing to begin a search, just like on Windows’ Start screen. The app integrates with Windows 8’s global search widget, which can be used both to search while in the application and to launch the app - select Wikipedia from the search providers when doing any search and you’ll pop over to us. This of course flips to scroll the other direction for right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew. The article reading view uses a multiple-column layout, which fits the tablet screen better than our current apps do on Android and iPad tablets: Wikipedia languages that provide RSS feeds of featured content display a tiled menu on the home screen: Wikipedia on Windows 8/RT uses common components from our Android and iOS apps, but fits in natively with Windows’ new styling.
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While Internet Explorer 10 works wonderfully with Wikipedia as a regular web site, we wanted to provide a nicely integrated Wikipedia experience for Windows 8/RT users as well, and are proud to announce that our official Wikipedia app is available for free download in the Windows Store. If you’ve paid any attention to the tech press, you may be aware that Microsoft is releasing Windows 8 - and its ARM-based tablet cousin Windows RT - today.
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