Finally Microsoft has published an official video of Windows 8 at D9 conference showing the new user interface and lots of new features introduced in Windows 8.
According to Microsoft, Windows 8 is a reimagining of Windows, from the chip to the interface. A Windows 8-based PC is really a new kind of device, one that scales from touch-only small screens through to large screens, with or without a keyboard and mouse.
Here are a few aspects of the new interface:
- Fast launching of apps from a tile-based Start screen, which replaces the Windows Start menu with a customizable, scalable full-screen view of apps.
- Live tiles with notifications, showing always up-to-date information from your apps.
- Fluid, natural switching between running apps.
- Convenient ability to snap and resize an app to the side of the screen, so you can really multitask using the capabilities of Windows.
- Web-connected and Web-powered apps built using HTML5 and JavaScript that have access to the full power of the PC.
- Fully touch-optimized browsing, with all the power of hardware-accelerated Internet Explorer 10.
Although the new user interface is designed and optimized for touch, it works equally well with a mouse and keyboard.
Windows 8 apps use the power of HTML5, tapping into the native capabilities of Windows using standard JavaScript and HTML to deliver new kinds of experiences. These new Windows 8 apps are full-screen and touch-optimized, and they easily integrate with the capabilities of the new Windows user interface.
The user interface and new apps will work with or without a keyboard and mouse on a broad range of screen sizes and pixel densities, from small slates to laptops, desktops, all-in-ones, and even classroom-sized displays. Hundreds of millions of PCs will run the new Windows 8 user interface.
The video below introduces a few of the basic elements of the new user interface:
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SMBR
First Comment :P
SMBR
Wow nice!
M1cha
This UI seems to be very nice for tablets, but for normal pc's it's not very productive.
I thought/hoped they are mnaking a nice-looking Interface which is productive and usabel for work-computers, too.
I hope, that there will come another UI which is better optimized for PC's.
amiel
its disappointing having 2 GUIs in a single operating system, and switching between the "modern" and "traditional" shell at the same time is just plain ugly. I wish it will be 100% metro UI once it will be released. and talking about memory consumption, the new OS will obviously kill ram on our PCs.
downlz
Its superb!!!. Mac,Ubuntu had already started feeling the heat
jusil164
maybe they will create different ui for tablets and in desktops/laptops/netbooks... :D
arkazain
Looks great, but... it feels more like a mobile UI rather than a desktop interface.
Alex
Good for touch screens.... for the rest it`s just wasted space .
IDragon81
wow........imagining dis wid bluestacks
angelite
NICE!