Windows 8 introduces a touch-friendly interface designed for tablets and smartphones, with quick boot and load times. It features an updated file system, simplified user account control, and a new full-screen Start menu. The operating system also includes a Windows Store app marketplace, support for running Windows from a USB drive, and integrated social networking through the Windows Live ID platform.

1. Windows 8
CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer
Patrick Clarke
&
Chris Raby

3. Simplified touch UI for smart
phones and tablets

4. Quick boot up/down times!
-zero watt offstate
-fresh sessions

5. Improved File System
Similar to the current
Microsoft Office Suite

6. Simplified UAC
Only appears for new, high-risk applications

7. New Full-screen Start Menu
Combines “metro,”
“tiles” into “mosaic”

8. Unfinished Application-launch menu
Focuses on reducing “time to launch”
?

9. New Log-In

10. Cloud Developments
-Single sign-in
-Single settings panel
-Open SDK
-SkyDrive

11. Windows 8 “Repair”
-Choose from refresh or reset

12. Windows Store
Similar to apple’s app store

13. Windows To Go
Run entire Windows 8 operating system on USB

14. Window Live ID
Accounts connected over the cloud through Skydrive

15. Internet Explorer 10
Stripped down for smartphones
Like Google“Chrome”

16. Socialite
Facebook integrated into a widget style application

17. Hardware Requirements
Still supports 32-bit 
Lower than Windows
7

18. New BSOD Screen

19. New Task Manager
Designed to be analytical and informative

20. Works Cited
Sinofsky, Steven. "Building Windows 8." Web
log post. Building Windows 8. Microsoft, 15
Aug. 2011. Web. 5 Oct. 2011.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/>.