Microsoft reveals new Windows 8 Tablet UI at D9

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Steven Sinofsky has today finally revealed the new Windows 8 tablet UI at D9, which is very much like the Windows Phone 7 or the Zune interface. Microsoft has also announced for the first time that the next version of Windows is at present internally called as Windows 8. According to All Things Digital Windows 8 essentially supports two kinds of applications. One is the classic Windows application, which runs in a desktop very similar to the Windows 7 desktop.The other type of application, which has to be written in HTML5 and Javascript, looks more like a mobile application, filling the full screen. Internet Explorer 10, which is part of Windows 8, has already been configured to run in this mode, as have several widget-like apps for checking stock prices and weather

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The start screen pretty much confirms the upcoming Windows Store and all the apps would be downloaded via it. Sinofsky further clarified that Windows 8 would have Internet Explorer 10 by default which we have mentioned earlier.

The company has posted few aspects of the new interface which was shown today at D9:

  • Fast launching of apps from a tile-based Start screen, which replaces the Windows Start menu with a customizable, scalable full-screen view of apps.
  • Live tiles with notifications, showing always up-to-date information from your apps.
  • Fluid, natural switching between running apps.
  • Convenient ability to snap and resize an app to the side of the screen, so you can really multitask using the capabilities of Windows.
  • Web-connected and Web-powered apps built using HTML5 and JavaScript that have access to the full power of the PC.
  • Fully touch-optimized browsing, with all the power of hardware-accelerated Internet Explorer 10.

Here is the Video showing the new Windows 8 UI-

  • guest2222

    ewwww

  • http://www.technokyle.com kyle

    I’ll definitely switch back if they can make it boot as fast as linux

  • Bryn_

    I have to agree with the post on The Daring Fireball.

  • Bryn_

    Doesn’t look very “mouse and Keyboard” friendly. Just doesn’t look like it would be an option

    • Anonymous

      This is a demo of the “touch friendly” UI element.  It’s no different than the table option from Windows 7 and Vista… or even Media Center.  It’s there, but not replace the Windows 7 “PC” experience that we have now.

  • Krishna

    It looks Cool… waiting to see its launch…

  • http://twitter.com/acharyakrishna Krishna Acharya

    I am so excited to run Win 8.  Can’t wait…

  • Derp

    That looks horrible!

    Great for a mobile device, but not for a desktop machine, please!

  • Anonymous

    sweet

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001850860895 Aditya Sathya

    hey does any1 know wen windows 8 is gonna release in india……..or the world?

  • heartford

    That looks like the user interface from the future that i always imagined, cant wait

  • Ian

    Hate it.
    It looks a little clunky and can see huge problems with mouse and keyboard.
    i will never own a touch screen as i am a gamer i wanted a really refined windows 7 not some
    gimmicky crap 

  • ppoolliiss

    I was expecting something better. Not a windows mobile OS for bigger screens! Verry dissapointed at it overall. It start to look more and more like mac and i cant really imagine how it would be using keyboard and mouse on a “OS” that isnt even made for keyboard and mouse!
    No way they have been working on adding some multitask and rezising Windows mobile 7 for all this time!

  • Anonymous

    Terrible ideas. Windows need to hire regular people to do reality check.
    Don’t make a keyboard/mouse PC with a touch UI. You won’t get business to accept that.

    • Zoharkingmaker

      correct!

  • Josh_eashappie

    theres still windows 7 underneith for the rest of us, the touch screen part will b mouse and keybored friendly as well

  • Anonymous

    I’m very impressed by the touch-friendly side of the UI. Let’s just see if it runs this smoothly on tablet hardware.

    Also, to those of you that are saying ‘oh noes this isn’t mouse and keyboard friendly! MS is ruining Windows…’ and the like, Windows 8 will have two different UI options, one Touch-centric, the other being the standard taskbar and windows interface. You should only see the touch-optimised UI if you are running Windows 8 on a tablet. The touch-friendly part of the OS is, of course, derived from the Metro design language most prominently used in Windows Phone 7, which has received wide critical acclaim, with many hoping a similar UI is used in Microsoft’s tablet OS. But of course MS wants their tablet and desktop OS to be the same, and with good reason (compatibility with hardware, billions of applications, usability, programming ease, etc.).
    Here’s hoping the final product is an evolution of what we have seen here, because if MS delivers, as it did with Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7, we will have a winner on our hands.

  • ref

    Not impressed, seems like another Windows Media Center edition failure.
    Why post this comment then? Because I’m entitled to an opinion so suck it up.

  • Uck729

    If my card only support DirectX9, does the windows 8 in my pc has hardware acceleration?? 

    • Uck729

      I mean UI acceleration

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