Find out what's going on around you with the news apps in Windows 8

The Modern UI interface is very interesting for applications that dynamically update information. This is the case of applications that show current news. In Windows 8, through a news app for the Modern UI interface, the information is refreshed from the moment the system boots and no intervention of any kind is required to update the information.

In this post, we've rounded up some of the news apps in Windows 8 that are relevant.From now on, in these times in which we live with a very high intensity of information, you will have no excuse for keeping up to date with what is happening around you.

General news applications

If what you want is to be informed of everything that happens on the national and international scene at the level of politics, economy, sports and society, you are in luck because in the Windows Store you have at your disposal several applications of the press and general media. Newspapers such as ABC, El País and 20 minutosThey already have an official app to read the news they publish.

Radio Televisión Española, RTVE, also has an application for Windows 8, through which it brings everyone who want to install up to date, making live news broadcasts and on-demand content available from the channel.

Wag me

This application allows you to access the news from the Menéame website from Windows 8. At the moment it allows a range of functionalities that, although they are not complete, allow you to enjoy the news aggregation and voting service. Consult published news, view comments, anchor news and categories to the desktop, search for news, access details on meneame.net, access by category (including sports), browse news sequentially (previous / next) and send news from the browser to Menéame , is what users can do with this application.

According to the developers, later, in future versions, new functionalities such as voting or logging in with the platform user will be available.

Bing News

Microsoft makes available to Windows 8 users its News application, illustrated with a wide variety of photos and based on on Bing technology, which will allow you to keep up to date with what is happening in the world.Designed for Windows, the News app puts control at your fingertips: Quickly swipe to read the headlines and catch up with personalized coverage of the topics that matter to you. All this through almost 200 trusted sources.

Bing Diario allows you to consult the main stories of the day, both locally and internationally, and in different sectors such as the business world , that of sport, technology among others. The My News functionality is also available, through which the user can select the topics that interest them, such as a soccer team, a favorite gadget or celebrity, to follow them with the News application.

El Mundo Today

For those who take the news with a bit of humor, the application of El Mundo Today is perfect for disconnecting when the news it paints in a dark color or leads us to tedium.The humor on this website is also contained within an application for Windows 8, so you won't miss any of his ironic quips about current events around us.

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