With recent talks and presentations, Microsoft has pulled the covers completely off the Windows 8 operation system early development for all to see.
With a Windows 7 phone like live application tiles it feels like the Metro design theme on a big screen which users can interact with using touch screen on the desktop. The center “hub” is a screen full of what they are calling “live” tiles which like on the phone system can be push notice feed, thus even with out have the application open the title can be updated with notification , for example email counts, new post…etc. The OS is presented on the screen in a full screen, engaging “chromeless” way that’s very clean and fresh. The system will also come with the similar experience in the newest version of Internet Explore 10 , IE 10, ( I added the link for the Platform Preview at the bottom of the post).
The cool thing is that the “app tiles” and interfaces are all built with common code used today , in what Microsoft is calling “Tailored Apps” environment, using HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS. I was totally expecting the words Silverlight to come out of the presenters mouth but , luckily we were spared that. I am not knocking Silverlight at all, I love it very much but it seems that the community is still cold to it and there size of the development pool is growing slower that I had expected.
The following is a collection of videos I found talking about the upcoming Windows 8 operating system:
Building Windows 8
Microsoft Windows 8 for Tablets
Microsoft Unveils 'Windows 8' to World (full event)
You can also go ahead and download and explore the IE10 Platform Preview 1, that was released April, 2011. It a very interesting experience and for once dose not force out your current IE version.
IE10 Platform Preview 1
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