Welcome to post-post-PC era: an overview of Microsoft's Windows 8 Consumer Example

Apple's IOS platform seemed out of nowhere and the world by storm in 2007. The introduction of the first generation iPhone launched in a chain of events leading up to the holiday quarter lead in 2011, when Apple's most profitable quarter in technology history recorded especially by the incredible iPhone, iPod touch and iPhone sales. No platform quickly sell a mobile platform from Apple at this time, but IOS is still in its infancy, and the fact is: as hot as IOS is now, and just as popular as smartphones and media tablets, no platform installed base on the planet even comes close to approaching the size of Windows at this time.

The Future

Microsoft said in december last year that there is now more than 1250 million PCs with Windows operating system. Billion with a "B" Smartphones are the hottest segment of consumers in the moment and people are buying Apple's iPhone in droves, but even more people around the world rely on Windows than ever before. This is because the software that many businesses from the ground is built on Windows. From Web browsers accounting software for point-of-sale systems for 3D animation software for word processing to create custom solutions and own far, far beyond ... Whole industries are built on Windows.

The future is anything but "post-PC."

We are now entering the post-post-PC era, and the focus is on the PC. A new, smarter, more versatile PC. A PC that allows users surf the Web relaxed in bed and work with large databases in SQL Server. A PC with an aggregator can run $ 0.99 and $ 99.000 if you can own CRM software to run. As a PC that is ideal to play Angry Birds, as it is to implement a modeling environment that allows the user to plan to build a skyscraper. It is the future of computing.

That does not mean that Windows 8 is an "iPad killer", or the media tablets leaving. Far from it. While their functions may overlap in some areas, bright and full Tablet PCs serve different purposes and will continue to exist for some time. What we will see, is still capable media tablets and more powerful as PCs are better suited for touch input. At one point on the path of the two categories may merge, but no one will 'win' or 'to lose. "

I've spent the past week playing with and working on a Samsung tablet of the new Microsoft operating system. It's nice to be able to work and play on the same tablet.

While Windows 8 is not quite in a state where it is ready to be released to the public, it is a very different animal than the Developer Preview Microsoft has more than five months ago. During a meeting with Microsoft executives, I was told that the National Consumer Agency preview version of Windows 8 tens of thousands of changes from the version that was released to developers in september included. Thousands changes are system-level elements, which I'm sure I did not notice, but thousands more are user-visible changes that have helped dramatically improve the user experience.

One of my favorite features is the implementation of sweeping gesture. As shown in the second and third images in our screenshot gallery Windows 8, Microsoft has tweaked the menus used to navigate the operating system and a variety of important functions to perform. Although the use of a touchscreen interface with Windows 8, these menus are accessed by means of gestures.

A swipe of the border around the screen from right to open the start menu, a search to find files and programs, a proportion of the current page to share via e-mail or use other services, a start button, a toolbar button that includes units connected to your PC and an Options button that provides quick access to the basic settings such as brightness and volume, but also a link to several system settings shows. A push from the left to switch between open programs, and a swipe from left and back to the edge of the screen opens up about switcher. Within an app that opens a swipe from top to bottom or from bottom up app-specific menus.

Although the use of a keyboard and mouse, have been gesture from the sides is replaced by the keyboard or mouse of the corners of the screen. A touch on the top right or bottom right mimics a swipe from the right and open the start menu while a button on the left or bottom left corner opens up about switcher.