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TAIPEI, Taiwan — June 2, 2011 — At 2011 Computex today, Microsoft Corp. showed hardware partners the next version of Windows, internally code-named “Windows 8,” to help the partners build devices that take advantage of the new user experience. As part of this technical preview, Mike Angiulo, corporate vice president of Windows Planning, Hardware and PC Ecosystem at Microsoft, demonstrated how “Windows 8” is optimized for newer touch-centric hardware, including tablets, while still delivering the flexibility, connectivity and power that people have come to expect from Windows today.
The technical demonstration also highlighted the new operating system’s ability to work across both x86 and ARM-based architectures, with a variety of early prototypes shown running the new operating system. Microsoft and silicon chip makers AMD, Intel Corporation, NVIDIA Corp., Qualcomm Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc. initially announced plans in January to work together on the next version of Windows.
“Our aim with ‘Windows 8’ is to make the user experience a natural extension of the device, from the time you turn on your PC through how you interact with the applications you know and love,” Angiulo said. “This represents a fundamental shift in Windows design that we haven’t attempted since the days of Windows 95, presenting huge opportunities for our hardware partners to innovate with new PC designs.”
The new user experience also extends to how applications will run on “Windows 8,” with controls naturally fitting into the device experience. Developers also will be able to use common Web technologies, such as HTML5 and JavaScript, to create applications for the PC, further easing integration and adoption.
To aid developers in building applications for the new operating system, Microsoft formally opened registration for its new developer conference, BUILD. The conference will take place Sept. 13–16, 2011, in Anaheim, Calif. More information and online registration for BUILD is available at
http://www.buildwindows.com.
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Here's a video, specifically the first video of a serie of future videos Microsoft will be showing in the up coming days.
Building "Windows 8" - Video #1[ This Message was edited by: tranced on 2011-06-04 14:19 ]
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Posted: 2011-06-04 15:18:51
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I thought it looked really good, some of the features were great like the split window for different apps.
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Posted: 2011-06-04 16:23:42
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Indeed. I think this will be the master piece of Microsoft. It will be present in the main devices which clearly means this is the fight for Android OS. As least it's what I think.
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Posted: 2011-06-06 05:06:42
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On 2011-06-06 05:06:42, tranced wrote:
Indeed. I think this will be the master piece of Microsoft. It will be present in the main devices which clearly means this is the fight for Android OS. As least it's what I think.
So does this mean we can see ARM tablets running X86 games like crysis?
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Posted: 2011-06-06 09:17:56
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Looks fantastic.
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Posted: 2011-06-08 18:50:35
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@Tranced When Windows 8 is released are you going to get it along with a nice touchscreen monitor? I definitely am.Star Trek shit is going down.
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Posted: 2011-06-09 09:51:28
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Interesting, However I hope the desktop version isn't anything like this...
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Posted: 2011-07-04 03:21:14
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@Sirhackalot: why not?
@Hobbs: I doubt I get it right away when it comes out.
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Posted: 2011-07-04 04:49:02
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I really like the way Windows 7 turned out! The demonstration of Windows 8 in that video seems like a good alternative to there already existing mobile platforms; but as a full fledged desktop OS? There just seem like too much is missing!
Look at the new windows mobile platform its complete garbage! I went from owning an htc touch diamond 2 w/ windows 6.5 to an Android to an iPhone 4, mostly due to the fact of windows's choice of OS design and functionality!
Not sure how to explain this all but im a pretty conservative type of guy. This is just one of those things I can't see myself accepting into my home!
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guess im not the only one...
look here[ This Message was edited by: Sirhackalot on 2011-07-14 07:03 ]
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Posted: 2011-07-11 20:05:11
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