Simplified touch UI for smart phones and tablets

Windows 8 is a new kind of device combining laptop, desktop and tablet operating system together.

You can have 10-inch touch-only tablets, big screen in your living room or massive gaming systems and business desktops.

You can put two apps on screen side by side or access traditional Windows desktop for richer apps.

Give names to tiles or leave them blank and change the width of

any of them.

Group or arrange tiles together

Pin desktop apps such as Task Manager or Office, and even a link to the desktop,

to the Lock screen.

Customize the image you see on Windows 8 Lock screen as well as details of unread mails or missed instant messages.

Windows Store

Similar to apple’s app store

New Log-In

The new user interface works well with a mouse and a keyboard inspite of being touch-sensitive.

Quick boot up/down times!

-zero watt offstate -fresh sessions

Improved File System

Similar to the currentMicrosoft Office Suite

Hardware Requirements

Still supports 32-bit Lower than Windows 7

Simplified UAC

Only appears for new, high-risk applications

Unfinished Application-launch menu

Focuses on reducing “time to launch”

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New Full-screen Start Menu

Combines “metro,” “tiles” into “mosaic”

Cloud Developments

-Single sign-in-Single settings panel-Open SDK-SKYDRIVE

Windows 8 “Repair”

-Choose from refresh or reset

Windows To Go

Run entire Windows 8 operating system on USB

Window Live ID

Accounts connected over the cloud through SKYDRIVE

Internet Explorer 10

Stripped down for SMARTPHONES

Like Google “Chrome”

Socialite

FACEBOOK integrated into a widget style application

New BSOD Screen

New Task Manager

Designed to be analytical and informative