Microsoft gives a sneak peak into Windows 8

By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 17 August 2011, 20:15 IST
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Bangalore: Microsoft unveiled a new blog written by the engineering team, building windows 8 where the software giant expresses that it will utilize the new blog to share about the forthcoming features, user interface decisions, engineering and other Windows 8-related news. Steven Sinofsky, President of Microsoft's Windows and Windows Live division said that there are lots of features equipped in windows 8 therefore they would like to cover most of the topics as possible. The software giant did a similar task by launching a blog called Engineering Windows 7 during the development of Windows 7. The new Microsoft OS will have a touch-centric interface for use on both traditional mouse-and-keyboard PCs as well as tablets. Windows 8 will also be the first version of Windows built to run on ARM-based and Intel x86 chips. Apps for the new OS will rely on HTML and JavaScript as the primary development languages. Microsoft' is planning to release more information's about Windows 8 during the company's BUILD developer conference in September.