Windows 8 Features

Well Most of Us Heard of the New Version of Windows, Named "Windows 8". This Post is Showing off All Features that are Likely to be Added.

Login Screen:
First off, Lets Start with the Login Screen. It has been Redesigned to Look Better and Work Better.

Image from Windows7Themes.net

The Screen Includes: the Time and Date, and allows the User to Change the Background Image without Any Third Party Programs.

Interface:

Next off, there is a Totally New Interface. You still Have the Desktop, But the Main Place is your Start Screen(it replaces the start menu). The Start Screen is Programmed with HTML5 and CSS3.

Image from BusinessInsider.com

Windows 8 Has Gone Tablet! Windows 8 Will Include more Touch Optimization, and Will Include a Totally New Tricked out On-Screen Keyboard.

Image from FindMySoft.com

Windows 8 Will Also Support System-On-Chip. Leading Windows Desktop to Tablets!

Well That's All for Now! Check Back Later for Other Windows 8 Stuff!

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Microsoft says Windows 8 about two years away

Wondering how long that one-year-old Windows 7 OS will be the "current" Windows desktop platform? While nothing has been revealed in English, the Microsoft Dutch website has spilled the beans: Windows 8 will be available in about two years.

The post was actually focused on Windows 7's first birthday. In roughly Google-translated speak, the post said, at the end, "But it will take about two years before Windows 8 (is) on the market."

Windows 7 was introduced about 2 1/2 years after Windows Vista
. In that case, however, Windows Vista was ill-received, unlike Windows 7, and Microsoft needed to hurry something out. Windows 7 reached its one-year anniversary this last week, and Microsoft announced the OS had sold more than 240 million copies in its first year.

A Windows 8 release in two years would mark three years between OSes, which seems logical. After Windows Vista's numerous delays, Microsoft vowed to never go that long between OS releases again.

However, also this week at a Gartner symposium, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Windows 8 was Microsoft's "riskiest bet," at this time.

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