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First Look at Windows 8

Windows 8 is the next version of Windows 7, the main difference between other Microsoft Operating System with Windows 8 is, it supports multiple platforms such as x86,x64 and ARM.


Windows 8 can be installed on desktop,laptops,tablet pcs.


The look and feel is very attractive and once Windows 8 is released, this is going to change complete computing experience.


Windows 8 Release Preview can be downloaded from Microsoft site (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IN/windows-8/release-preview)


Instead of directly installing on your laptop, you can first install this on Virtual Machine (VMWare, Oracle VirtualBox etc)


I have installed my first Windows 8 Operating System (Build 8400) on my Oracle VirtualBox without any difficulties.


Windows 8 Main View






















User will have different exprience with Windows 8 OS. User need to spend some time to learn this new operating system which has Metro Style Windows 8 Style UI View.


There are lots of new feature which are very new to the Windows 8 OS, such as search.
Some of the New Features of Windows 8 
  • Metro Style  Windows 8 Style UI Application Support
  • New task bar view
  • Support for Sign in using Windows Live account
  • Sync with multile system with same Windows Live account
  • Integration with SkyDrive 
New Task Manager



 There are so many other great features which I will be keep on posting :)

(Note: As per latest update, Microsoft has dropped "Metro" name,and instead it will be called "Windows 8 Style UI")
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