The Video app is another Xbox labeled app, and just another storefront for buying video. Windows Media Player can handle video playback, but Microsoft no longer includes an MPEG-2 playback license. For this reason, you'll need to download Windows Media Center ($9.99 if you're a standard Windows 8 user, free for Windows 8 Pro users.)

The SkyDrive app lets you access your SkyDrive content. It's not nearly as flexible as the SkyDrive desktop application, with its associated folder. But this app is slick looking.

By now, you're probably past your first 30 minutes with Windows 8. There's a lot more to learn, but much of what you learned with Windows 7 still applies. Take the desktop, for example. Sure, the classic Start menu is gone, but the Simple Start menu (Windows-X) should ease some of the pain of finding system-level programs.