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April 2014
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The editors liked
Metro redesign actually makes Desktop way more pleasant
Two-display support is pretty solid
And useful for mixing Metro with desktop
Real gestures on Windows. That work
The Metro Start screen is an awesome dashboard/app drawer
Free streamed music th
Adds a tiled
Clean Start Menu to Windows 8
Can customize with shortcuts and apps to your specific workflow
Significantly better than the Windows 8 dashboard
Attractive
Touch-friendly interface
Tightly integrated with cloud
Compelling search feature
Fast boots
Slick Bing apps
Faster boot times
Two-in-one operating system—both tablet and PC
Excellent touch input
App store for easily finding
Installing
And updating apps
New IE10 browser is fast and compatible
Better multi-monitor support
Low price compared with previous Windows releases
More informative task manager and file transfer dialogs
New
Improved file system
Easier recovery from system problems
Better integration with the cloud
Faster boot times. Twoinone operating systemboth tablet and PC. Excellent touch input. App store for easily finding
And updating apps. New IE10 browser is fast and compatible. Better multimonitor support. Low price compared with previous Wind
Great OS to upgrade to
Excellent pricing
Tons of improvements across every facet of the OS
Win8 UI is solid
Easy to use
Overall design is more conducive for professional use
Great for gaming
Plays vast majority of games perfectly
's review of the Surface RT tablet. In short
Microsoft will need to clearly explain that Windows RT is a mobile OS that shares the same skin as Windows 8
But is not a fully capable PC. It cannot run the same desktop programs as full Windows 8
Only apps
Very touch-friendly and unique new user interface design that's sure to translate well to both very large screens and smaller tablet screens
Easy and fast one-handed task switching
Touch screen controls are accessible by swiping the screen edges for v
Touch-optimised UI works well on tablets
Wealth of built-in apps
Reset and recovery tools
Very stable
Several great improvements versus Windows 7
Better performance and faster bootup
Cheap upgrade offers
Good usability for powerusers
Lots of new schortcuts
Better security
Great for systems with touchscreens
Better multiscreen support
Works well on tablets
Traditional PCs
Deep integration with SkyDrive
Xbox
Free music streaming
Improved multi-monitor support
Solid and stable OS. Performance onpar or better than Windows 7. The traditional desktop receives a healthy dose of enhancements. Metro is visually appealing and should work really well on touchscreens. Upgrade price is attractive and extends all the way
The editors didn't like
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Limited selection of Metro apps in the Windows Store
Simple actions in Metro apps
Like searching
Can be deceptively hard to complete
Metro apps can be visually confusing when multitasking
Laptop touchpads don't make the most sense
Som
Nothing
Competing interfaces lead to confusion
Few Windows 8 apps for now
No Start menu
Umer apps—People
For social network contacts
Photos
Mail
Messaging
Calendar
And Video
Xbox Music—a free streaming music service similar to Spotify
Storage Spaces—Lets you easily use multiple drives as one large virtual pool of storage
ISO mounting
The OS can now make a disc image file appear as a drive
You'll get all this and more for a mere $39
99 upgrade from Windows XP and later
An
The missing Start menu will drive some people nuts
Overly aggressive when it comes to selling apps and content
Some aspects of the OS are unnecessarily confusing
Unfamiliar and sometimes unintuitive interface navigation. Few tablet apps compared with competing platforms. Two separate control panels and browsers could cause confusion
Some functions are scattered
Win8 versus Win7 line is very strict
Laptops with small/poor trackpads will suffer immensely
Upgrading proves far easier that setting Win8 up brand new
People easily frustrated by change will have problems here
Windows Store is still relatively low on apps. Ambiguity between x86 and Windows Store apps in Microsoft messaging and when pinned on Start Screen. Windows 8 will take effort to get used to
And not all users want to learn a new operating system and inter
Significant learning curve
Reduced discoverability of features (many commands are hidden in edge menus)
Windows RT version does not support traditional desktop applications due to the processor architecture it runs on
UI does not yet support navigatio
Modern UI a major upheaval
Legacy applications are confined to desktop
Microsoft risks alienating desktop/laptop users
No boottodesktop setting
No builtin option to return the Start Menu
Weird location of shutdown/restart buttons
Poor multitasking with Modern UI and desktop
DV Hardware awards Windows 8 with a 8.75/10 an
Steep learning curve
Frustrating to use with a mouse
Limited selection in Windows Store
Metro and the desktop have been forced to coexist and it shows. UI changes can add to confusion. No Start button makes no sense. OS has yet to prove itself on the tablet market with further hardware and software support.
As we might have surmised, based on our prior week of testing, the performance of applications running under Windows 7 and Windows 8 is fairly similar. There are a handful of discrepancies across our complete benchmark suite, but it's probable that some o...
Published: 2012-11-01, Author: Pete , review by: mashable.com
Abstract: Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Windows 8 is a radical change for Microsoft and Windows. It represents a revolution in how computers work. Windows 8 doesn’t just alter what Windows is, but what a PC is, as well.These kinds of bold statements are pret...
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Published: 2012-11-01, Author: Adam , review by: Pocketnow.com
Very touch-friendly and unique new user interface design that's sure to translate well to both very large screens and smaller tablet screens, Easy and fast one-handed task switching, Touch screen controls are accessible by swiping the screen edges for v
Significant learning curve, Reduced discoverability of features (many commands are hidden in edge menus), Windows RT version does not support traditional desktop applications due to the processor architecture it runs on, UI does not yet support navigatio
We often talk about two different types of user interface usability aspects that are important to the design of an operating system: is it easy to learn and is it easy to use? The “easy to learn” aspect is often built upon what everybody already knows a...
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Published: 2012-10-30, Author: Dana , review by: engadget.com
Works well on tablets, traditional PCs, Deep integration with SkyDrive, Xbox, Free music streaming, Improved multi-monitor support
Steep learning curve, Frustrating to use with a mouse, Limited selection in Windows Store
So long as you have a touch-enabled PC, Windows 8 is easier to use than you may have feared. Just give yourself time to master the learning curve....
Some people want to lug around separate machines tailored for specific input paradigms, like carrying both a notebook and a tablet, and that's fine (crazy, but fine). Personally, I want one device that can be both a touch-friendly tablet with tablet apps,...
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Published: 2012-10-29, Author: Adam , review by: tomshardware.com
The user interface formerly known as Metro is heavily inspired by the tile-based UIs of Windows Phone 7, the Xbox 360, and Zune HD. So, the fact that we're now faced with the Windows 8 UI on the desktop isn't completely out of the blue. Microsoft has been...
Abstract: While the Windows Store is one of the biggest additions to the new OS, there are plenty of apps pre-installed, which bring tonnes of new features to Windows 8.The most notable of these is the Xbox Video and Xbox Music apps, which as the name suggests, plu...
By now, you’ve read all about my experience using Windows 8, and as a Windows 7 die-hard who was unwilling to change while the rest of the world was talking about Windows 8, I have to say that I’m impressed. Microsoft has made a lot of really smart ch...
Love it or hate it, Windows 8 is ushering in a new era of cloud-connected Microsoft services, a unified user interface, and more-robust social media interaction. Younger users may find Windows 8 more attractive than some old-school computer users will...
Abstract: Some say PCs are a dying breed. That's a little hyperbolic for me, but it's absolutely true that the size of the herd is thinning relative to other devices. The share of the personal computing pie captured by desktops and notebooks is shrinking as people ...
