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Windows 8 Release Preview unveiled!
Jun 3rd
Everyone can finally enjoy the long awaited Microsoft Windows 8 Release, whose rumors have been around since April
Microsoft has unveiled it as a free download available to PC users eager to take it for a test drive.
The third and final pre-release version demonstrates, as predicted, significant enhancements when compared to its prototypes; the company itself claims that this is the most important redesign of its interface since Windows 95.
Attentive listening from the team behind Window 8 to their consumers has certainly paid off, resulting in the redesign of the Store, which now offers smother navigation and a greater depth of content.
So what is new?
1. New Apps added to the Windows 8 store, aside from of course their basic ones, such as: Sports, Travel and News. Each rely on data fed from Bing, yet promise to offer an amplified experience from that one usually gets from the web browser alone.
2. New App competences; new apps can make use of several Windows Metro interface features with the ability to pin them to the Start Screen.
3. Multi-Monitor Support.
4. Flash in the Metro Web browser.
Here is a video conducted by logic lounge, showcasing a step by step preview:
While the Windows 8 store is doing a pretty decent job with its store, being an approximately new platform, we are not quite sure if it can compete with, let’s say, the well established App Store from Apple. It is worth noting though, the Wikipedia app that was indeed a pleasant experience; with its combination of eye-candy and utility, probably making it the most appealing Wikipedia app we’ve yet experienced on any desktop computer platform.
Microsoft’s glam team has also visited Internet Explorer 10 (IE10), which now comes with a default “do not track” turned on, permitting users to manager cookies and other privacy concerns more easily. All in all, the browser is a vast enhancement over their predecessors which were the misfortune of millions of office workers throughout the previous decade.
With this new Preview, Windows 8 is sure to impress, especially those who like the unfathomed territory into which Microsoft is steering its flagship product.
We’ll be able to gauge the masses’ verdict in October, three years after the release of Windows 7.
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Rumor has it… Windows8 release date!
Apr 24th
After much speculations about the release date of Windows 8 Release preview (the Release candidate version), Microsoft has finally confirmed that it would be released in the first week of June. During the Windows Developer Days conference in Japan, Steven Sinofsky announced about the Windows 8 Release preview. After that the official Building Windows 8 Twitter account tweeted about it.
We’ve been hearing a lot of deliberation about the launch date of Windows 8 Release preview and finally Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft’s Windows Division, spilled the beans during the first day of the Windows Developer Days conference in Japan announcing that it will be launched during the first week of June. The news confirms previous speculation that the Windows 8 release candidate would be called a “Release Preview.”
This new leak was confirmed via Twitter today (Link)
Obviously there was a mix up with the slides during the conference, for they showcased the old Windows logo, sparking readers’ interest and inquiries whether or not they are reverting to the old logo. Microsoft responded , however, with this brief note: “just a miss on the slide. #sorry.”
The new Windows 8 logo, which was designed with the assistance of the third party design company Pentagram, has been a bit polarizing to long time Windows fans since it was first revealed. Microsoft said at the time that they wanted the new logo to look more like a window than previous logo, which resembled a flag flapping in the wind. Sam Moreau, the Principal Director of User Experience for Windows, wrote back in February:
Microsoft and Windows are all about putting technology in people’s hands to empower them to find their own perspectives. And that is what the new logo was meant to be. We did less of a re-design and more to return it to its original meaning and bringing Windows back to its roots – reimagining the Windows logo as just that – a window.
The most prominent changes will be:
- The new OS will be the most significant redesign since Windows 95.
- The trademark Windows “Start” button will no longer appear, replaced by a sliding panel-based menu.
- Powering computers running traditional processors from Intel and AMD, the OS will also run on new tablets and laptops running low-power ARM processors.
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