Win8 massive map tour: take all the PC /tablet, x86 /ARM

Microsoft today unveiled the next-generation Windows 8 operating system for the first time at a partner preview at Computex 2011 in Taipei, demonstrating its operation on different processors in PC and tablet, x86 and ARM architectures.

Microsoft has placed a large number of hardware systems on different processor platforms. The x86 family is naturally Intel and AMD. The ARM family has NVIDIA quad-core Kal-El Tegra 3 and Texas Instruments dual-core OMAP 4430. Qualcomm single core Snapdragon 1.2GHz.

Windows 8 on the ARM architecture platform is naturally more concerned, but in fact, whether on the tablet and on the PC, whether it is on the x86 architecture or the ARM architecture, or even the touch screen, Windows 8 will adopt A unified user interface.

The Windows 8 ARM version also has a standard desktop and a new tiled boot screen that runs the same application (currently with an ARM ported version). USB devices are also working fine, and Microsoft has specifically demonstrated the ability to copy files from a USB flash drive.

The system reference design partners for the Windows on ARM project include NVIDIA, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Foxconn, Wistron, and Quanta. NVIDIA brings Kal-El Tegra 3 quad-core notebooks and tablets. Machine, you can see the startup screen, you can see Office Word, you can see that the four processor cores in the redesigned task manager are performing H.264 video rendering.

There is also an XPS brand tablet from Dell that supports touch and external keyboard operations, and the user interface is fluent and even faster than Windows Phone 7.

Windows 8 is specifically designed for touch operations and supports border gestures, which of course actually act on the pixels next to the border, not the border itself. The gestures of the operating system are arranged on the left and right side borders of the screen, wherein sliding from the left side is a start button, and sliding from the right side is a multitasking switch.

Clicking the Start button toggles between the standard Windows desktop and the new tiled interface, and even uses touch gestures to list multiple tasks that are running on the screen. If the screen is widescreen, you can also display two applications side by side.

If you don't have a touch screen, the above series of operations can still be done through the keyboard, and the operation is also very simple and fast, Microsoft has deliberately demonstrated how to use the standard keyboard for multitasking.

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five hardware platform to run alongside Windows 8:



NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core tablet and laptop running Windows 8:


Dell XPS machine running flat-panel Windows 8:



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