Microsoft Corporation Unveils Re-imagined Windows Operating System Named as Windows 8

After a long anticipation tech giant Microsoft has taken the wraps off the next generation of its new Windows operating system Windows 8. The Windows 8 Developer Preview Edition is now available to download and use for testing purpose. Steven Sinofsky, the President of Windows department of Microsoft Corporation, formally introduced Windows 8 on the Build Developers' Conference in California. Refers to a focus on Microsoft Windows 8, Steven Sinofsky said, "We re-imagined Windows. From the chip-set to the user experience." The system will function through one of two interfaces; a traditional desktop, similar to that seen in previous editions of Windows, and a tablet version, known as Metro. Metro features larger, chunky controls of the sort that best suit touchscreen use. The current lack of such an input method is widely seen as the reason why few Windows 7 tablets exist. Microsoft said that it would also be launching its own online marketplace - the Windows Store - to sell downloadable applications.

Windows 8 is the codename of the next version of Microsoft Windows, a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, netbooks, tablet PCs, servers, and media center PCs. It adds support for ARM microprocessors in addition to the traditional x86 microprocessors from Intel and AMD. Its user interface has been changed to make it better suitable for touchscreen input in addition to the traditional mouse and keyboard input.

Microsoft has given a detailed report on Windows 8 features on the Build Developers' Conference. Mr. Steven Sinofsky said "Although the other windows versions have the multitasking feature, Windows 8 will give the real flavor of multitasking."

This OS is not only for Tablet PC but also for Desktop and Laptops. Hyper-V virtualization process is used here for which all the applications of the previous windows versions will work well with this newer version. There will be an application store, from which the users can be able to download their necessary applications. In this cloud-computing based operating system, some developers tools are provided which have already gained much praise from the developers.

There are many new features in Windows 8. The most notable features are the attractive user interface, touch, skydrive, application store, ARM processor, new task manager etc.

The system requirements for the Windows Developer Preview are similar to those of Windows 7. Minimum Hardware requirement will be 1 GHz x86 (32-bit) processor (for 32-bit version) or 1 GHz x86-64 (64-bit) processor (for 64-bit version), 1 GB (for 32-bit version) or 2 GB (for 64-bit version) of RAM, DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM driver model 1.0 (Not absolutely necessary; only required for Aero), 16 GB (for 32-bit version) or 20 GB (for 64-bit version) of free disk space.

For more details, visit Microsoft Corporation Home Page or Wikipedia.

Developers worldwide can download a preview of Windows 8 from Microsoft beginning Tuesday evening (at dev.windows.com ).

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