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We are here in Anaheim, California at the conference Microsoft is building. As is tradition (or at least as much as possible), Microsoft has been the major conferences of development for its new operating system about a year before its release. In 2008 the developers and the press has its in-depth first look at Windows 7 at Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft (PDC), and here in 2011 BUILD is doing the same for Windows 8.
As it is Windows 8 is still in its infancy. Building Microsoft's demonstrations of 1802, a pre-beta version and feature full operating system. Microsoft has to balance the need to show Windows developers to 8 with the need to keep it a secret until it is done not to scare end users. The result is the situation that integrate Microsoft focuses on features completed while the unfinished tasks are either not in the operating system or will be mentioned. For comparison, in the PDC 2008, Windows 7 interface was not yet over, and Microsoft was using the Windows Vista interface in place.
Today the fair begins in earnest with a speech that begins at the time this article was initiated, followed by some of the mega-developer sessions covering major aspects of Windows 8. Yesterday was a day before the event to the press, Microsoft spends most of the day running to the press through a similar series of presentations, focused more on end-user developers.
At the end of the sessions of the press we managed to get some hands on time with a tablet PC development platform with the very constitution of Windows 8. We have not had the opportunity to give a platform to complete work on - not that it would be prudent in its pre-beta state - but wanted to give a summary of what Microsoft had to share with us and what we have seen so far. Microsoft to build motto is that "Windows 8 changes everything" and while Win8 not a massive overhaul of the Windows kernel is an important review of almost everything else. Indeed, based on pre-beta build on the screen, you will use Windows 8 significantly different from Windows 7.
The great thing with Windows 8 is Metro, which we will go further with a little. Metro Microsoft classifies as a style, but in fact Metro is a new version of Windows API on. Metro is the Windows shell, Metro is an application design paradigm, Metro is a paradigm of user and the meter is the future of Windows application programming. Metro is everywhere - and ARM's it - and it will (or break) Windows 8.
Source : anandtech.com
