Once again I
am back today with due of a weekend and time to spare I have decided to write
about the most noticed talks on Engadget and Techcrunch in the recent
month.
For who
might not have guessed it’s about the good old Microsoft Corporation with their
new operating system Windows 8 (Touch Centric). Though the operating system is
not bad as it looks and has some very cool features (if you have never used a
pc in your life) and confusing/irritating (if you are a PC fan).
The start
menu is gone, this time for good releasing a metro style app platform
something, which reminds me of Launch Pad in Mac OS Lion. Though the look and
feel is like that of the windows mobile making the desktop more of a bigger
cellphone interface than a PC operating system as a whole. Things have gone a
long way and as commented during the launch of the developer preview few weeks
ago.
For some of
you who loved to see applications all in one screen on a windows based PC this
could be a good interface to get hands on, something you might have been
waiting for, and for others this might be a start of a new generation of things
which call for a change. Yes with the claim of Microsoft of moving PC design
towards touch based devices this might seem the optimal OS after iOS, and by far
its free and you can install it on any device with the same setup disc. The OS
has a good feel for touch and the way things are designed with the apps there
are new changes coming in.
Windows 8
has new features as well related to the App Alignment and Store feature, which
is predictably like the Mac App store. In short everything from the Mac books
and still not up to perfection. Rather this time Microsoft does stand a fair
chance over the MacOS in terms of the metro look. Installations this time are
simpler and the OS has a very quick boot time of about 30 seconds. (Reason
might be since the start menu altogether has been disabled.)
There are
more things to it like the stock market live feeds, news feeds, Facebook and
twitter integration, these might seem to be social OS when you first look at
it. The Facebook integration this time might go for a toss since the recent
changes in the layout of the Facebook page and features has changed drastically
and all app developers have to work on the improvements so that people can
adopt their apps with the new changes.
Social life
these days has changed to a bigger extent and people are more concerned with
getting updated what friends are doing and what they are thinking about, new
feeds about the happenings round the globe and what people have to say about
them, comments from the world leaders or the prominent personalities in
Hollywood and Bollywood, political uproars in countries which we never even
heard about or cared till recently, scandals and sex have been the most selling
these days and affairs are a talk for a weekend, technology news and upcoming
gadgets for geeks and freaks which has to be something which everyone wants to
be updated on. When we see things like this being the priority of the users the
main idea is to create a Operating System which caters to these needs and Wolah
!! You have windows 8 doing just that.
Though
having said that still a part of me says that this is not what I wanted a PC
for, people work on PC and if they are forced by default while clicking the
home page to see a screen giving updates of the daily life then who the hell
will work in companies. Now that’s really something, which Microsoft should
have thought of or might be thinking right now about the new operating system
and its impact to its corporate clients. Since most of the corporates today
want their resources (slaves or employees) to work in the office hours and
extend support for late hours so that they can earn the maximum profits and
clients like these will be totally shocked to see this new operating system
which will destroy their forced dictatorship on their slaves ooops resources.
With some
open topics and some closed the discussion still conclude on the fact that the
step taken this time by Microsoft has given a change and this change might be
just the one that was needed to revolutionize the way we operate PC’s (if there
are still people using them).
For you to download the link of the new Operating System by Microsoft, Yes its FREE download for all.
Link : http://www.buildwindows.com/
and here are a few screenshots of the new look