Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) to introduce the Windows 8 version with some major modifications to the antiquated PC interface.
The new operating system will have three new and essential gesture-based commands: swipe down, swipe left, and swipe right. The swipe down command will help to reach the app’s settings from the edge of the screen; swipe right command will help search through an app and to personalize it; the swipe left command will help switch to a previously opened app.
Windows 8 boots to a Start screen filled with columns and rows of app tiles. Tile settings can be seen by “tickling” each tile. Other movements allow users to multitask between apps or quickly access the computer’s basic settings.
The new operating system will require its users to learn new short cut key commands to toggle between apps, change settings or close out of an app.
Additionally, users will now be having two different versions of Internet Explorer (one for the Start screen and another for the desktop). The methods of finding applications will also be a new theory and the new system incorporates in it different levels of sleep mode (“connected sleep” wakes up every so often to update your PC).
Windows 8 operating system will be introduced shortly and MSFT has also been in the talks of introducing new Windows 8 touchscreen laptops and tablets in October. Microsoft announced this week that it’s working with touchpad mouse manufacturers to integrate those controls into laptops and mice as well.
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