Monday, May 7, 2012

Windows 8 features

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When Microsoft revealed the “consumer preview” of Windows 8 on Wednesday, it didn’t just give the world a glimpse at a new OS — it also showed us that it can be a leader in touch-based user interface design. Yes, Microsoft’s new tablet UI isn’t merely utilitarian. It’s actually innovative, and even cool.
And in some ways it trumps the best that Apple and Google currently have to offer in iOS and Android, respectively.
Here are five new Windows 8 features.

Picture password
You can choose both the photo and its related gestures for your picture password. The more that's going on in a photo, the harder your password will be to crack.


Easy Gesture-Based App Switching
Flick from the left side of the Windows 8 screen, and you can either rotate through apps lightning-fast, or pull up thumbnail previews of the apps you have open.

Choose your key size
For the split-screen keyboard, you can choose one of three key sizes.

Full screen application screen
Windows 8 also innovates with a unique, tablet-optimized approach that eliminates distracting “chrome” — in other words, all those busy interface elements that can junk up a desktop or app interface. In fact, it’s an OS-wide theme of Windows 8′s Metro UI. There are no menu bars, task bars, or navigational buttons permanently pinned to the display.

Home screen
On the Start Screen, you can get a glimpse of recent e-mails, what's next on the agenda, the weather, and more. 



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