It's a text-based interface for browsing files and launching programs. You know, what many people used to do with a CLI when they had it.
I assume they mean nothing more than that.
I assume they mean nothing more than that.
The search bar on the Windows 7 start menu does what they're talking about to some extent (though I'm betting not nearly as nicely, and it certainly doesn't return web results). I know I just hit Windows Key > first few letters of an application > Enter to launch several things on my Windows 7 machine already. Sounds like they're making a supercharged version of this for 8.1 that includes web results/Skydrive stuff and the like.