Watch Windows 8 being demonstrated now!

Get over to  this place  and watch the keynote for Windows 8 , what I need from Windows 8 is not just the innovative touch exploiting tile interface ,but a license that covers 4 to 5 machines , since being part of the Windows 7 Beta , I now have at least 5 Windows machines ,including 4 Windows 7 tablets so the major concern for me will be how I upgrade all these devices to the new OS without  facing bankruptcy ... and is it me or is all this green very Xbox Live?

looks just like my joojoo circa 2010 !

I have at least 4 Windows 7 tablets ready to test the Windows 8 Beta out on , from twin screen Libretto and Iconia , to the atom powered Joojoo and i7 powered X220T so come on Microsoft release that Beta already!

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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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Download Windows 8 preview release today

The Building Windows 8  blog currently states you should be able to download Windows 8 preview ISOs from   http://dev.windows.com/  with your Windows Live ID , sometime today , note I said sometime , or I would already be too busy messing with it to blog this ! Note you will need to do a fresh install  as this preview is not a Beta , this would be an awesome time to invest in a mSata hdd,install Windows 8 later and  you can then pop it in your laptop or Windows 7 tablets as needed  , which will also allow you to avoid destroying your Windows 7 install ... as well as compare and contrast Windows 7 and 8 by dual booting!  Videos to follow as soon as  I get it installed and running!

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Windows 8 on the Lenovo X220 T Angry Birds vs Atari vs the Metro UI instant wake up and Pen use

I have been having so much fun testing Windows 8 , currently I have it installed on the Joojoo , a dual screen Toshiba Libretto and as you can see from the video below  , the 64 bit version ,on the Lenovo X220T , this is running from a Runcore basic msata ssd  about the size of 2 sim cards , a few days into Windows 8 use and you realise the Metro interfaced IE10 is all about HTML5 and not flash , though the desktop IE10 is fine with Flash . For this test  I wanted to show how easy it is to switch between  and use multiple browsers using the touch screen , have all your favourite Apps running in the background , I also discovered that you can slide in windows from the left and right of the screen that have other apps open , as well as swipe from the left to switch between apps 
I also show the instant resume time of Windows 8 , yes it is faster than your monitors wakeup time  !

The point of Windows 8 IS touch , this is not a touch layer applied over the top of an OS , touch functions accelerate and enhance your every day benign tasks , from the oh so serious Angry Birds to checking the weather , or your social network life . 


So your next laptop should not just be an ultraportable , or ultrabook , it should be an ultrabook with a touch screen and pen input , likewise your next 30 inch 2500 by 1600 LCD should also come with 10 point multitouch and  pen input , and if it does not it will ... it will thanks to the evolution that Windows 8 promises ....


With Windows 8 Microsoft is giving PC and Monitor manufacturers , software developers and end users opportunities that Apple have denied them ...


And this is just touch , there is nothing to stop Kinect style control of this OS .. and on the PC platform hardware will arrive that can cope with it  . 

As the Lenovo X220 T comes avec pen , this also deserves some testing out on Windows 8 ,   just check the video below , the new handwriting interface looks a lot nicer than the custard yellow Windows 7 version , and more importantly manages to read my impossible to read handwriting as you can see , this is a first use test so the software has yet to learn my writing style .....but it is mighty impressive ....

Remember you do not need an i7 powered tablet PC to do all these things , the Atom powered Joojoo or any Windows 7 slate or netbook will handle the Metro UI and feature set of Windows 8 . 


The launch of this preview is so different to Windows 7 , which famously launched sans many drivers , what has changed now is the software and UI is driving hardware manufacturers , thanks in part of course to Steve Jobs , the iPad and the hunger it created in the masses for a desktop Windows touch and cloud  based UI .. and yes you guessed right that happens to be Windows 8.... you should see how gorgeous the 12.1 joojoo looks running it ! 


And yes that is a dual screen Libretto in the picture running the Windows 8 ... just have to get the set up complete for dual screen touch magic ....

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Windows 8 running on the Fusion Garage Joojoo 12.1 inch tablet

My first install of Windows 8 and test was always going to be on that futuristic and rare tablet the Joojoo . Contrary to what you read in Apple Cult Weekly , the Fusion Garage Joojoo got many things frighteningly right , it was just way ahead of the curve , and still is , for the Joojoo is a cloud tablet , and consumers are  still a couple of years away from accepting the cloud ..not to mention developers presently chained to iTunes .... 
The Joojoo is the worlds first tablet , predating the iPad , and packing open hardware that let you mess with it from the get go , for a year now I and others have used Windows 7 Ultimate quite nicely ,as you can see from many videos I have made , today it is a collectors item and that is according to Endgadget !

With the arrival of the world`s first  touch and cloud based full OS : Windows 8 ,  all the problems that the Joojoo launched with have turned into boons for those brave enough to have gotten hold of one ,  the msata storage , was unheard of when the Joojoo launched , an upgradeable ssd the size of a postage stamp, the desktop nVidia Ion easily paired with 3gb of DDR3 and the X86 ( oh how the blogs laughed) based Atom N270 , and not least the massive 12.1 inch 1366 by 768 res multitouch display . All of these design choices made by 14 people at Fusion Garage   now allow a near instant boot of the Windows 8 preview . It is actually faster than the original Joojoo 8s or so boot time :  Don`t believe me check it out below :

I installed the 32 bit version after wiping the 64gb joojoo msata clean of Windows 7, it took a  night of trial and error and sometimes scary messages .  To install  set the Bios to boot ( hit del at start up) from USB ( your bootable 32 bit Windows 8 USB)  , then when Windows 8s installer claims it wants to reset , and makes the joojoo go dead (yes really) remove the USB stick , set the Bios to boot from the SSD ,and start her up again , and wait and you will see a green screen ...eventually...

The other great thing to note about the install is , you can do it all mouse and keyboard free on a tablet , touch works BEFORE you install anything ! All the language and install menus , just touch and chose .....

Oh and once it has installed go to Windows explorer and install the joojoo touch firmware again , and run the tuning software as touch will go haywire until you do , then reset , by swiping back from the right of the screen , touching the settings icon and the power off icon ..and when you start the machine up again touch will have been calibrated and working like a charm as you can see in the video below which is a stress test to show how advanced multitasking is in Windows 8 , and this is on just an Atom powered tablet ,

And remember when they told you your Joojoo was too long? well check out the video below , the 12.1 inch screen looks gorgeous in the portrait orientation and allows enough room to have the keyboard or touch panel docked at the bottom of the screen , again check the speed of browsing , this is the power of your gpu accelerating your web experience

Tomorrow I will have tested Windows 8 on the i5 powered dual screen Iconia , and the i7 powered X220T ,by way of the dual screen Toshiba Libretto ..

Today though is joojoo resurrection day , for me and all the other joojoo owners who just installed Windows 8 onto their 1366 by 768 12.1 screened , Ion and Atom powered tablets , that a year ago Endgadget and the rest were complaining about not even running Flash....

With Windows 8 Microsoft have a product that scales from phones , to tablets to full desktops and workstations by way of giant  consumer touch screens in between , they have also managed to unify their customer base , Windows 8 being  literally  your window if you are a developer to 549 million PC users ... And it is about time ..so say we all !

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Windows 8 Metro UI vs Onlive UK on the Joojoo tablet : The cloud is ... the cloud is ...baby

The way we mess with our PCs and game has changed for ever ... the cloud is ... and here is a demo of multitasking using Windows 8s Metro Style touch interface and streaming games instantly using Onlive UK which brings the benefits of the cloud to gamers in Blighty just in time for those cold cold Winter gaming months .


So let us take a step back here , I am about to play games, full PC games instantly with no install  , social network , read news feeds , whilst doing any number of other useful ... multi tasks ... on a 12.1 inch Atom powered tablet ....using a full desktop touch screen OS most of it  on the same screen at the same time ... and absolutely NO Apps were synced during the making of this video.....

This is just an Atom powered joojoo , can you see how Windows 8 and cloud based services like Onlive are going to change our lives next year with new hexcore cpus from Intel , and AMD and nVidia duking it out for the crown of fastest tablet GPU?


Till that day my £319 Joojoo is mighty fine and as  you can see .... the cloud is not around the corner ... the cloud is .. and Windows 8 together with Onlive are just two of it`s heralds .... 

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Windows 8 on a dual screen 10 point multi touch and Multi tasking Metro on the Acer Iconia i5 tablet

My Windows 8 testing was briefly put on a 12 hour hiatus ... well OK 12 hours of Gears Of War 3 gaming from last midnights launch .... but more on that later back to the serious stuff of messing with Windows 8 ... the preview ...


Windows 8 promises enhanced  multi monitor support, but how will it exploit multi touch screens? Well the prospects look good from my first tests using the Acer Iconia. Installation was swift and easy and the Iconia handles the 64 bit flavour of Windows 8. However the thing with dual Screen tablets is you have to flip the orientation of one screen, set the desktop to extended  mode and most importantly go into the tablet settings and assign each of the screens as a touchscreen, which is made a lot easier by using an external Keyboard, as you need to hit enter to assign each screen is a touch screen. This of course also gave me the chance to set the Iconia into Portrait mode something the custom Acer Windows 7 install did not allow. So having done all this you should have a dual 14.inch  tablet that looks like this:(remember to set the extended desktop).

and so let us start with some browsing :  which looks something  like this :

and in use this is how we roll : note you will see in the video I can use all 10 fingers ! So the Piano , and Painting Apps , as well as typing with the keyboard really shine on the Iconia , most Windows tablets are limited to 2 point touch  ,though in the case of the Lenovo X220T , you have 2 finger touch , 5 finger recognition and the pen input which is arguably more useful on a tablet than having 20 point touch across two 14 inch screens.....

there is always the standard landscape dual screen mode , which you can see in the picture and video below .

these videos show 10 point touch working in Windows 8 , type or play the piano with all your digits ..., check out the speed of the OS , multitasking , and multiple app usage

The second video demonstration explores possible uses of a having a super fast touch based OS with 10 point touch on dual 14 inch screens  : vital uses like playing 2 games at once ,  playing your  own soundtrack accompaniment silent film era style  using the Piano App on Screen 2  to Mass Effect 2 which I am playing with Gaikai on screen 1 

Even in this early state Windows 8 is  fun to mess around with on your dual screen tablet , as you can see ,and this is just the preview , roll on the Beta..


No tablet comes close to the speed of the touch interface on the Iconia ,  it seems Microsoft could easily launch a Courier style tablet , definitely next year as the software and hardware are progressing that way ... so thegameveda predicts there WILL be a Microsoft branded tablet sometime next year , a full Windows 8 tablet , with the successor to i5 or i7  and Intel HD 3000 , with which Microsoft could finally dent Apples rise , come on Bill ...you know Steve would ... wait he probably is already ....if my spies on board the Cupertino UFO are to be believed.....

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Windows 8 multitasking tricks revealed through the magic of touch on the Lenovo X220T

If you think Windows 8 is simply Windows phone os layered over Windows 7 , think again , yes your first interaction will remind you of a smart phone . But for the first time multi touch and pen input are being used with a full desktop OS , those Apps you are messing with are full programs , not just stuff you spent hours syncing to and from your Mac or PC with a sloooww usb connection .


This video shows me discovering how to open multiple programs and browsers , ok so they call programs Apps now (bow before Jobs) .

Everyone knows you can swipe from the left to move individual apps to the screen , but the cool or wow as they used to term it comes when you hold your gesture , at that point any app or say 5 open IE10 browser windows line up for you to chose from in a small pane on the left , whilst you run Google chrome in the larger pane , swipe forwards and this pane will fill with another app , the app can be re sized , moved across the screen ,and you can do this from the right side of the screen too . So now your IE10 window covers the larger part of the screen whilst your Chrome browser shrinks , both remaining entirely functional ..through the magic of touch ... and pen on the Lenovo X220T . This is far easier to do with touch as you can see than say a laptops  track pad ...


And herein lies the real magic :an end to mouse clicking ,picking,swiping glass track pads  , and what the cool dudes refer to as a chromeless experience ...


Frankly awesome .. check out the speed , so you can browse in Google Chrome and IE10 at the same time , run apps in small panes ..eg having news feeds run in a small pane whilst educating yourself in a larger pane at the same time , oh and the apps actually function in those smaller panes ,these are not just fancy windows ...check it out

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Windows 8 playing Crysis 2 on Steam whilst using Onlive to play Assassin`s Creed Brotherhood and more!

Thegameveda has calculated that there is not sufficient lifetime available to play through all the games that have been and will be , therefore a cunning plan has been hatched to play through games 2 at a time . This plan has been put into action thanks to Windows 8 , Steam and Onlive . And also allows me to test how the Windows 8 developer preview handles gaming . Note we now have a touch based OS that allows us to flick through games and Apps , you have for the first time the power of an i7 powered tablet PC with more RAM and GPU power than IOS and Android Tablets could hope to dream of . So you can do things like run 2 games at once , whilst running Windows 8 and desktop Apps in the background and flick through them as easy as a Build demonstrator on happy juice ... 


check out video , this is my first games test using Windows 8 , but if anything it already feels faster than Windows 7 , perhaps because we have a raw os devoid of all the bloatware that may slow it down in later builds . 

Test machine Lenovo X220 T 4gb RAM i7 CPU Intel HD3000 GPU running Windows 8 off a 64gb Runcore msata ssd .. 


Crysis 2 is running in Steam natively using the i7 and HD3000 , I let the game choose settings (High) , Assassin`s Creed Brotherhood , Saints Row 2 , Mafia 2 all run instantly streamed using Onlive over wifi N .  


All in all this test shows that even in the developer stage Windows 8 not only  leverages maximum power as they say in Crytek speak from full PC components like  the  CPU , GPU , pen and touch tablet options , ssd storage , Steam , and wifi N dependent streaming services like Onlive but allows a level of multitasking no other OS or device without Windows 8 is capable of .... and this is just the developer build !

If you are in the market for a tablet hold on ditch Android and IOS before their stores own you , and hold out for a Windows 8 tablet , or just grab one that can run Windows 7 and install the Windows 8 preview ... 

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Playing through the first level of Red Orchestra 2 using Windows 8 on the Lenovo X220T

Today I received my Red Orchestra 2 , Tripwire`s sequel to that Unreal mod many of us have been playing for three years ( yeah stick that in your console paid for dlc download pipe and....) ok sorry been at the Apple juice again


Red Orchestra 2 being a Steam game gives me a chance to further test gaming on the Windows 8 developer preview , Crysis 2 flew on it , so much so that I played it whilst playing onlive games . Red Orchestra 2 requires thought and lots of dying remember this as you see me play through  the first level using the hero difficulty setting on a Lenovo X220T tablet PC . The X220T`s  Intel HD3000 and i7 CPU with 4GB DDR3 run the game fine at medium settings from a Runcore msata ssd as you can see .

Red Orchestra 2 is currently priced around £14 at Zavvi and Game , and if you are at all into FPS on the PC , or a WW2 aficianodo you need to play this game . Consider this is about the cost or less than the cost of most DLC these days . And console fans you now have another reason to get into PC gaming .


I love that a small company like Tripwire can take what was a mod , through Steam sales create a fan base that plays one game for 3 years , and then brings out an improved sequel using the 3 years of prior gameplay as feedback to actually give fans what they want .

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