Windows 8

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