Windows 8, New OS from Microsoft

Windows 8 Is coming soon: Microsoft will provide an outlook for the next Windows. What can the new software? Quick Start, tablet support, and a kind of App Store – We has put together what is already known. Windows 7 was hardly finished, Microsoft‘s developers have made to the next plant. Under strict secrecy, since they develop the next Windows, the Microsoft will not even tell whether it is really called Windows 8, as is generally supposed. On this Tuesday evening, now it will be far: At the developer conference will build the group show software developers, the next Windows looks like and what it can.

Especially when the speed is to set the new Windows. Already in March circulated reports that the software can be installed within eight minutes on a PC. That would be sensational. Not only because a current Windows 7 loose three times as long as needed, but also because the high-speed installation have been possible even with an early beta version is scheduled. Normally, these early versions are still relatively slow. However, Windows 8 in this experiment was also a strong tail wind: the testers tried the quick installation of an eight-core PC with 24 gigabytes of memory.

But even if one does not use quite as powerful hardware that will underlie the new system each time the PC make a positive impact. In “Building Windows 8” blog says development chief Steven Sinofsky, that the boot is made with the new software by up to 70 percent faster. In tests on a variety of PC they had measured starting times of 15 to 30 seconds. Based on which the test computer hardware, Sinofsky did not reveal, but that the trick is to write parts of the data in memory when you turn off onto the hard disk. Thus, for example, software drivers, which control about the graphics card or the printer, load quickly and are activated.

Apple similarities

In some respects, the new Mac-Windows users to Apple‘s current Mac OS X 10.7 Lion remembers feeling. For example, when programs run in full screen mode, hide the user interface of the operating system so completely. How many Mac users can actually use this possibility, but currently do not judge.

An App Store (Apple offers something for Macs for some time), there will be also available for Windows 8th The software download store Sinofsky confirmed via blog post in August. From which you will probably be able to load in addition to regular programs, the software that wants to call Microsoft apps. There are now some confusion: Apple calls all programs Apps, Microsoft apps are only certain workers, namely, the successor of Windows widgets. It is about small programs that can be anchored on the desktop, for example, a world clock or a calculator handy to always have. Apple calls these mini-programs the way widgets.

Tools for touch screens

Windows 8 will solve a good bit away from the PC. Although the operating system will continue to run on ordinary desktop computers and notebooks – but not only. Above all touch screen devices will benefit from the new user interface, the Microsoft developers have those of the mobile operating system, Windows Mobile aligned 7th The new Windows desktop can be covered with tiles that represent different functional areas, such as calendar, inbox, address book. A click on such a tile opens the underlying application.

However, it is likely that this surface is activated automatically only on Tablet PCs and touch screen, and that there will be continued on a conventional desktop PC usual – even for compatibility reasons.

The introduction of these tiles is called Live Tiles useful in several respects. On the one Microsoft uses to not only use the very small target group of those users, the touch screen on a desktop PC. But above all, should the users of Tablet PC benefit. It is in this booming market, Windows 7 is currently a niche – it is not designed for this use. There are indications that Microsoft is hosting Windows on Tablets: So, for example, presents one of the manufacturers Samsung Slate Tablet PC called – perhaps preparing the Korean company already available on the production of Windows-eight tablets.

Not only Intel chips

With Microsoft Windows Tablet will probably make up for lost land. The next Windows will not run exclusively on Intel and compatible processors. The new Windows will also be adapted to the power-saving arm architecture, based on the most Tablet processors. This step makes it possible to build lightweight, inexpensive and energy-efficient windows Tablets.

Windows on these tablets with arm processors will run only programs that have been rewritten for these chips. Old Windows software will not work because it requires features of Intel chips. How difficult it is for developers to adapt their software for saving processor is not currently public. Microsoft is reportedly already in their own software arm – would be unthinkable for a Word Tablets.

This adaptation to arm processors, combined with the standardization of user interfaces for Windows 8 and Windows Mobile 7 Microsoft would bring many new opportunities. Above all, it would offer users a unified Windows-look, no matter if they’re not serving a desktop computer, a Windows Tablet or a Windows mobile phone. Bind to this unification is to trick the user groups and its ecosystem – which has led the way Apple.

For the developers who participate in Microsoft‘s build-conference, possibly a completely different question is just as important: What Microsoft gives away this time? Before the release of Windows 7 distributed to the group on a conference such as laptops, which ran on a preliminary version of the new software. This year – that predicts the IT-blog “All Thing D” – Microsoft could give participants a tablet with a prerelease version of Windows 8th The right hardware can deliver Samsung.

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