Building 8 video Jun 1, 2011
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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.
Windows 8 has a new developer platform according to Microsoft Vice President
Julie Larson-Green, who called it "our new developer platform, which is...based
on HTML5 and JavaScript."[29] The new applications run in full-screen, but two
of them can be displayed side-by-side using "Snap". Examples of new applications
that were demoed include a Twitter client, a weather application, a
stock-tracking application, an RSS news feeder, and a virtual piano.
The new interface is primarily designed for 16:9 screen resolutions, with
1366×768 and larger screens able to display two Windows 8 applications. 1024×768
screens can display one Windows 8 application in full-screen, and 1024×600
screens can only use the traditional Windows desktop.[30]
Mike Angiulo confirmed at Computex 2011 that Windows 8 will use OEM Activation
3.0 instead of Windows 7 OEM Activation 2.1, which supposedly makes it less
prone to cracks.
Allso have a look at
Windows 8 Windows 7
Boot Time (Windows Screen to Desktop) 0:10 0:35
Compress a ~700MB File 0:29 0:32
Decompress a ~700MB File 0:11 0:12
Duplicate a ~700MB File 0:01 0:02
Encode a Movie in Handbrake 8:06 8:15
Cold Start 9 Applications 0:46 0:46
Open 10 Tabs in Chrome 0:07 0:07
3dmark10 Score 6470 (5218 Graphics, 23098 CPU) 6455 (5199 Graphics, 23448 CPU)
Total Time 9:56 10:29
As I’m sure you can probably see some of the differences were very very slight and you probably wouldn’t notice. But bear in mind all these tests were run on a pretty powerful machine so you would probably see more improvement on an older lower spec machine.
Lifehacker also noted that sometimes Windows 8 didn’t boot in this magical 10 seconds, sometimes it would take nearly as long as Windows 7. I think we can just put that down to the fact that it’s still only a developer preview and we’ve still nearly got a year to go until Microsoft release Windows 8 to the public, and chances are these little quirks will be gone by then.
Source:
Lifehacker
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