Image via CrunchBaseMicrosoft has released the first sneak peak of its upcoming Windows 8, which will be the next version of the Windows operating system. It has been designed to work on both PC’s and touch screen tablets. The sneak peak was actually shaped into a blog post, which also featured a YouTube video representing the functionality of the operating system.
The President of Microsoft Windows Division, Steven Sinofsky, personally demonstrated few of the features of this new operating system, which is not actually named yet but only coded as "Windows 8," at the D9 conference by All Things Digital. Sinofsky declared that "laptops, slates, desktops -- all can run one operating system." He said that "Things that people see work... on an iPad, I think we can do that and then bring with it all of the benefits that you have with Windows." Finally he also added "We have an approach that is different but builds on the value of an operating system that sells 400 million or so units a year."
Analysts have claimed that, from the looks of it, Windows 8 has been designed by adopting most of its features from Microsoft's latest mobile OS for smartphones, Windows Phone 7. The replacement of Windows long-used icons with touch "tiles" is one of the most prominent changes. In the Windows 8 interface, tiles will be used to launch and navigate between applications rather than windows icons. It was mentioned in the official blog post, by the VP of Windows Experience, Julie Larson-Green that 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." Larson-Green added stated that "Although the new user interface is designed and optimized for touch, it works equally well with a mouse and keyboard.”
It was also asserted by Larson-Green that Microsoft will be constantly revealing more features and functionality of Windows 8, which is using Internet Explorer 10 as its Web browser. Windows is one of the worlds widely used operating system, though Microsoft has been facing quite more trouble in entering the ever-changing tablet market as it remains dominated by Apple's iPad. Almost every tablet maker has chosen Google's Android OS up till now, but an analyst from Forrester Research, Sarah Rotman Epps has declared that "well-formed Windows 8 will pose serious problems to Android."
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