Windows 8 heralding the Post Apple era !

  

Microsoft is back.. baby ... and with  new buzzwords " Metro Style " .. and introducing you to " the Cloud" 

And they have their own Steve  ...Sinofsky doing their keynote

But this is not a cult of personality Steve Jobs or Bill Gates style keynote ..no this has both style and substance

 and we just got to the meat and potatoes of it , and there also seems to be enough for seconds and lashings of gravy ..

A dude in black shows Windows 8  Boots faster than your monitor powers up, desktop, laptop, tablet all good to go.security, power management innovations, X86 and Arm support.

Storage of 256 terabytes is now possible or though not possible unless you have Steve Jobs bank balance

Hardware acceleration of all Apps from the base up means every App is sped up

Touch control: Pixel sensitivity : 1 pixel is reserved for the UI to initiate your Windows 8 Metro Apps Touch experience even on hi rese wide screen monitors and so the magic is  no longer confined to just your phone or tablet...
    
a res of 1024 by 768 is required to run Metro Style Apps
1366 by 768 is needed for side by side apps  so the Joojoo,  Lenovo X220T and my Grid 10 maybe will cope with that . And the dual screens of the Iconia...

Near Field sensors allow you to touch your frenemies tablets and errh share data ..

Funky Web Cam Apps let you mess or clean up your image

HP have an impressive App , note everything just became an App , or as they say a Metro style App ,

Remoting  lets you use a smaller  Windows 8 tablet  to remotely control your other Windows 8 devices using touch ...

Beneath the tile interface :

Hyper V runs on Windows 8 fine , run virtual machines to your hearts content

Iso mounting finally hits mainstream from the OS

Icons can be moved across ribbons , there is an Up button in explorer

Multi monitor spanning now has backgrounds that span both monitors with new keyboard shortcuts

The new Metro style Internet Explorer 10 has touch control icons , a chromeless experience ( very Fusion Garage but not as advanced !) full screen viewing  and up to 5 point multitouch , which is going to be cool to try out on the Iconia which is currently the only Windows 7 tablet with up to 10 point touch ...

Inking of course detects your palm as you rest it on the screen ( same as Windows 7 )

Syncing allows all your settings to roam without ever having to export data in the old way , sync your tablet with your desktop all through Windows live ...542 million people .. wow that

and now the important bit for me the cloud :

Windows 8 lives on Windows live , now this is significant , as Microsoft storing your data in the cloud , will eventually have the possibility to charge you to maintain and access that data , just like office live used to be free and now is replaced with office 365 subs , several years down the line you may be perfectly willing to pay to preserve your online life , this also challenges Google with its Apps model , finally Microsoft have something to challenge Google with. Good for us competition benefits consumers.

Connecting facebook and twitter to your live account allows you to access  your pictures across different services , and share between applications using skydrive and send with any mailing app.

As every Windows 8 user has a skydrive , free ( for now) , developers can also exploit this to deliver content and potentially offload storage from their own servers onto the skydrive  of potentially 549 million consumers ...

Access to any file can be made using this system

All of this of course also syncs to your Windows phone again through the same Windows Live account.

And there is more ... Steve says 100s more features ... Sensor based games , sample apps all built by college interns ...


Windows 8 is not just eye candy or a slick UI layer this seems to be revolutionary in terms of OS development for both consumers and the developers that can exploit app fever on a desktop platform with 549 million desktops to target , and Microsoft is delivering what millions have demanded , you see Apple boasted of a post PC experience on OSX , Lion and iOS , but developers have been confined by the iPAd and iPad 2 hardware and iTunes store . We finally have the cool of a tablet but with the power of a full os , no more gimped phone os jokes unless they are directed at Cupertino...

Now developers have 549 million PC customers , with hardware like the new ultrabook spec , and multiple form factors , this really is a post PC experience for everyone , it also just made the OS cool again , as cool as Apple made hardware , how many Macintels will be bootcamping Windows 8 ?

Everyone at the developers conference just got a free Samsung Windows preview PC
That can even run dual monitor setups , in an 11.6 inch tablet  with the developer preview

Windows 8 appears to have  all the features of iOS and tablets that you love , whilst finally leveraging the power and promise of new form factors and hardware

It also targets ARM and X86 way before Apple get on the ARM bandwagon  , have your cast off HP tablets ready people!

But what I need to know is how the license model works............though first I am going to go ape messing with installing this on 4 tablets and and a desktop... at around 3 am gmt which is PREVIEW DOWNLOAD TIME

No activation just download it and also no support ! 

Welcome to the revolution  ....

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