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Microsoft showed the world the new operating system Windows 8 . Yesterday at the annual conference for developers of BUILD, the company revealed features of the new OS. The slogan of the event- "In 1995, Windows 95 changed the PC. BUILD show that Windows 8 changes everything. "

Said Steven Sinofsky, president, Windows at Microsoft, responsible for developing and marketing Windows, Windows Live and Internet Explorer, differences between the new operating system from previous Windows 7 "is even more fundamental" than earlier versions of the differences between them. "All that was best for the seventh version, we have improved and even more in the eighth," - he said.

A top manager said that Windows 8 will be two different interfaces. Second, Metro, specifically optimized for tablets. In addition to touch the surface of portable devices, it will support mouse and keyboard.

Microsoft has really spent a great job reviewing how to work with a PC, while trying to bind as far as possible the classic interface with Metro. Metro concept to describe in detail does not make sense: it is already familiar to owners of the mobile platform, Windows Phone.

When you start the computer screen appears expectations. It is known that they will introduce new modes of user authentication. One of them was shown - the entrance to the picture on which the user must hold his fingers over a specified area to them earlier in the same sequence, causing a certain invisible figure.

The new OS will consume significantly less memory. So, Windows 7 is required 404 MB of RAM, and Windows 8 will need only 281 MB. Freed resources will be used for applications. Loading the operating system will be done in seconds .

Other interesting facts about Windows 8, expressed at the conference:

· all Windows 7 will run on Windows 8;

· messages about updates, security will be shown in the lower right corner of the screen;

· updated the Task Manager stops the application when they do not appear on the screen - the program continues to hang in memory, but do not load the processor;

· Hyper V virtualization technology included with Windows 8;

· multi-monitor support allows you to stretch the wallpaper to two common desktop environments, displaying a taskbar on both screens, run on a single monitor, Metro, and another - a desktop interface;

· Internet Explorer 10 supports the multisensory control;

· integrated into Windows 8 different sensory keyboard and handwriting recognition;

· Support SkyDrive online storage is integrated into all cloud applications;

· between Windows devices 8 can carry a variety of settings;

· even Netbook Lenovo S10 (Atom first generation and 1 GB of RAM) can run Windows 8;

· Metro - this is not the superstructure, and the environment, deeply connected to the operating system kernel;

· Windows device 8 will support the exchange of data between them using the NFC, as well as the usual reading of data, for example, a card with support for NFC;

· in Windows 8 will be embedded anti-virus software;

· a special version of Windows 8 Tablet will not; not seem to be, and versions for media centers;

· it is unclear how many editions (Home, Professional, Ultimate, and so on) Windows 8 will be released;

· ARM devices will be supported, but not in pre-assembly for developers;

· prefabrication OS developers will be constantly updated;

Microsoft has confirmed that the OS provides the application store, called Windows Store .The latter will be similar Mac App Store , Apple running in early 2011.

Terms of the final version of Windows 8 the company did not disclose. It is assumed that the OS will go on sale in summer or autumn of 2012.

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