Finally Microsoft going to Released Windows 8 Developers Preview as well as for windows users. Windows users are waiting from long time for Windows 8 when they heard about Windows 8, because of it’s excited features and changes which is completely different from Windows 7. The main feature that was shown is the extensively redesigned user interface, optimized for touchscreens as well as mice and keyboards. A new “Start screen”, similar to the one in Windows Phone 7, includes live application tiles. It replaces the Start menu, being triggered by the Start button or Windows key, and is also the first screen shown on start up. The user can go to the regular desktop by choosing the “Desktop” tile or a traditional desktop-based application.
The Start screen also displays the user’s name and avatar. Windows 8 has a new developer platform according to Microsoft Vice President Christopher Ham, who called it “our new developer platform, which is…based on HTML5 and JavaScript.”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.
Windows 8 will also include:
- Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization tool. Previously only offered in Windows Server,
- Hyper-V will now be available in client versions of Windows for the first time.
- The system requirements for Hyper-V are a 64-bit processor, a 64-bit version of Windows 8,
- and a minimum of 4 GB of RAM. Hyper-V also requires a 64-bit system that has Second Level Address Translation (SLAT), a feature that helps with memory management.
- Many of Intel’s and AMD’s recent processors support this feature,
And including many of Intel’s i-Series processors and AMD’s 10h family processors. On September 8, 2011, Microsoft announced that Windows 8 has short boot times, because it saves the kernel’s memory to the hard disk on shutdown and reloads it on start up.
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