Microsoft Shows Off Windows 8 At Computex 2011
At 2011 Computex today, Microsoft Corp. showed hardware partners the next version of Windows, internally code-named Windows 8, to help the partners build devices that take advantage of the new user experience. As part of this technical preview, Mike Angiulo, corporate vice president of Windows Planning, Hardware and PC Ecosystem at Microsoft, demonstrated how Windows 8 is optimized for newer touch-centric hardware, including tablets, while still delivering the flexibility, connectivity and power that people have come to expect from Windows today. The technical demonstration also highlighted the new operating systems ability to work across both x86 and ARM-based architectures, with a variety of early prototypes shown running the new operating system.
Our aim with Windows 8 is to make the user experience a natural extension of the device, from the time you turn on your PC through how you interact with the applications you know and love, Angiulo said. This represents a fundamental shift in Windows design that we havent attempted since the days of Windows 95, presenting huge opportunities for our hardware partners to innovate with new PC designs. The new user experience also extends to how applications will run on Windows 8, with controls naturally fitting into the device experience. Developers also will be able to use common Web technologies, such as HTML5 and JavaScript, to create applications for the PC, further easing integration and adoption.
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