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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.
Published: 2012-10-25, Author: Mary , review by: techradar.com
On the right hardware, it's sleek, fast and fun, Huge security improvements, Better battery life, faster boot, Great for touch
Start menu gone, Can't boot to the desktop, You'll want a touchscreen/trackpad gestures/Touch Mouse, Modern UI will annoy some, Some older CPUs won't run it
This is the fastest, most secure, most battery friendly version of Windows 8. It's also a bold move to head off the danger of Windows becoming irrelevant in an iPad future, by giving you the best of both worlds. You can have a slim, lightweight, cheap ta...
Abstract: The most significant update to the Microsoft desktop operating system in a decade, Windows 8 is quicker, better secured and more focused on the cloud than its predecessors. However, the biggest change by far has to be the side-lining of the familiar Windo...
Windows is still a great OS, decent upgrade price, amazing start-up and shut-down speeds, enough new features to justify asking price, restore/refresh is a brilliant and well-executed idea, handwriting recognition is amazing
Metro/Modern is confusing and will require people to re-learn Windows, Supplied modern apps are mostly rubbish, the UI can be very inconsistent
For all the complaining about the new look of Windows 8, there's one crucial thing to remember: you don't have to upgrade. The OS itself in 8 is an incremental improvement over Windows 7, there are some nice features here in the way file copies are man...
Published: 2012-08-23, Author: PC , review by: itpro.co.uk
Is upgrading to Windows 8 a no-brainer for those running Windows 7 on PCs and laptops? No, far from it. The vast majority of the work has been devoted to the new Metro interface, and that's the part that's least compelling on regular PCs. Navigation is...
Touch-optimised UI works well on tablets, wealth of built-in apps, reset and recovery tools
Modern UI a major upheaval, legacy apps confined to desktop
Windows 8 is the first version of Microsoft's OS that feels like a natural tablet platform, and adds many useful new features and technologies. If you can get past the new-style Modern user interface, it is well worth a look, although those used to the...
Windows 8 embraces the future wholeheartedly. Log-in and boot times are fast, the apps look gorgeous, and the Sync feature brings seamless transition between devices
The learning curve is steep and in-app navigation isn't obvious. There are just too many known unknowns here
Microsoft makes an aggressive, forward-thinking and bold statement for the future of PCs and touchscreen tablets with Windows 8, while significant security and speed improvements more than justify the upgrade price....
Abstract: Windows distributed its 8th version as pre-beta, because the hardware to run the ARM version isn't ready. This edition was thought as a means to combine the operating systems of a laptop, desktop and tablet and is now available for a testing preview. When...
