Microsoft Made Some BIG Announcements About Windows 8

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Microsoft held a huge keynote presentation today at its Build developers conference that covered the future of the Windows ecosystem across PCs, tablets, and smartphones.

The biggest news was Windows 8.1, an update to Windows 8 with new features that address several complaints users have had with the new operating system.

You can see all the most important changes coming to Windows 8 right here >

But that's not all.

Microsoft showed off some updates to its Bing search engine, gave a demo of some cool-looking 3D Bing maps, and wowed the audience with a video game called Project Spark that lets you create your own gaming environments.

We covered the whole thing live. Check out the blog below to see all the news as it happened.

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