Friday, September 16, 2011

Now it's Windows 8 turn

"The rearticulation of the mouse cursor with the finger" (or fingers), all of them, that's succinctly the new Windows 8 multitouch interface, named Metro UI (based in the Windows Phone 7). In other words, you can use simultaneously more than one finger each one engaged on a different complementary operation on the same screen (and I don't mean just enlarging or reducing the size of a picture!) That's but one of the many features present in this new iteration of Microsoft Windows introduced officially this week, in Anaheim, California, at the BUILD conference, the first place to dive deep into the future of Windows. I missed being there, with thousands of developers, to get a free Samsung Windows 8 tablet powered by ARM mobile computing architecture (in other words, beyond the traditional Intel, and that's a big departure). I found this well documented site with a a list of 300+ Windows 8 features that Microsoft didn’t show.

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