The first thing you notice after Windows 8 initializes is a new tiled
Start screen, which replaces the Windows 7 Start Menu.
If you swipe the screen from right to left, a special overlay user
experience appears.
This display feature is handy for tablets, yet the tiles work well on
bigger screens because it responds to a mouse-click as easily as an index-finger.
Indeed, this format is scalable from an 8-inch screen all the way up to
wall-displays.
Strange how early adopters complain that the Metro UI is just
like a tablet but with Windows.
Windows 8 UI is not so much "Touch-centric", but "Touch-first."
Aero Auto-Colorization Auto-colourization is an
example of how you can customize Windows 8 more than you could with Vista or
Windows 7. The idea is that you can change the colour of Windows shell,
menus and taskbar. It's worth seeing the extra Personalization options for
example,
Windows Color and Appearance.
Another new feature is a ribbon for Windows Explorer. Clearly this has
evolved from the Office 2007 Ribbon. 'Steadily improving and no
longer a shock for we users.' Mr Sinofsky.
Microsoft has take ages to perfect the Ribbon menu, but I like it, the
menus are well designed and intuitive.
Cloud Screen Integration It will be easier to store
data on Microsoft's own Skydrive, or 3 party products.
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Hybrid boot enables Windows 8 to initialize in about half the time of
Windows 7, here in the control panel is where you can disable Hybrid Boot.
Start your troubleshooting here: Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound ->
Power Options. Now find on the left hand menu: Choose what the power
button does.
On the surface there is the new Start Screen, and the Windows Explorer
ribbon, under the covers Windows 8 has been stripped down and rebuilt for
faster booting and better performance on tablet and laptop computers.
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