With the Windows 8 Release Preview finally available , Microsoft has taken a major step toward putting its chips on the table for its biggest gamble ever. While we may start seeingsome of the hardware that will run Windows 8 asearly as next week , we know enough about the operating system itself to say what's surprisingly good and what needs help, STAT.
What we liked so far :
*. The Metro interface
comes at app icons froma different angle than Apple and Google. Live tiles are actually useful,updating the stock ticker concept for a modern, mobile world. You can create tiles for individual e-mail accounts, or follow updates from specific contacts, and it presents a nearly non-existent learning curve.
*. Semantic zoom is theability in Windows 8 to access different levels of content via zooming. On the Start screen, zooming out gives you a bird's eye view of your tile groups. In an app, you can zoom out to see different kinds ofrelated content -- in the Bing Travel app, you'll see categories like Today, Featured Destinations, Panoramas, and Articles.
Friday, June 1, 2012
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