Over last couple of decades, Microsoft has come up with about 7 major versions of the Consumer PC Windows OS – Windows for Workgroups in early 90s, Windows 95, Windows 98, windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista & the latest one being Windows 7.
One thing has been common amongst all, the way the Windows OS has been structured remains the same. Of-course, lots of applications got added from version to version, but there has never really been a drastic change in the way a user accesses his applications, documents, images and other files.
But thats all going to change with the arrival of Windows 8, which promises to give an entirely new Windows experience to the users. The Windows 8 Operating system seems to be inspired from touch screen smartphones, where applications are accessed based on touch & swype. It looks like Windows 7 phone Operating system but with keeping the larger computer screens in mind.
Have a look at this first video released by Microsoft on how Windows 8 Operating System will look like – It sure is a treat to eyes. You will have to wait for another year to experience this on your PC, as Windows 8 is expected to launch sometime next year!
Microsoft's official list of new features shown off today:
- 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 multi-task 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.
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