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Microsoft's Windows 8 goals revealed

2010-06-29 08:53 by
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Microsoft's successor to Windows 7 is taking shape - and that shape looks suspiciously like an iPad supplementing a diet of media with online services.

A set of Microsoft slides, apparently leaked online here and expanded here, have mapped out the company's design and feature goals for Windows 8.

Among those goals: Windows 8 works on a slate form factor in addition to the regular laptop and "all-in-one" PC, with Windows 8 complementing this new form factor by providing instant power on - or at least near instant.

Windows 8 slates will support touch and use facial recognition to pull up the users' profile - presumably application settings, documents and services.

Microsoft wants Windows 8 to feed users cloud services and let them download applications from a planned Windows 8 Store. So far, Microsoft's only been talking about marketplaces in relation to Windows Mobile and Zune service.

Read more -here-
See also: Alleged Windows 8 Blueprints Leaked Online

 

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