On a touchscreen, you swipe top to bottom. On a non-touch device, you update to 8.1 update 1 and there's a close button in the top right. Admittedly, that close

On a touchscreen, you swipe top to bottom. On a non-touch device, you update to 8.1 update 1 and there's a close button in the top right. Admittedly, that close button should have been in there in 8.0 for non-touch pc's.