Say goodbye to your desktop.
Microsoft launches its latest operating system, Windows 8, today amid assurances that it's going to be a "game changer".
  Microsoft Country Manager Marcelle Smart shows off the tiles on the new Windows 8 start screen. (Photo: Paul Rodgers) 1/1  |
And whether or not it will alter how we work, play and chat with our friends, it looks strikingly different from earlier versions of the world's dominant software.
Gone are the tiny, static icons scattered across a limited desktop space. Instead, Windows 8 has larger tiles bearing graphic logos, photographs or videos.
In many ways, it's designed to feel like the interface in Microsoft's Xbox game console.
"It's Windows re-imagined," said Marcelle Smart, the country manager for Microsoft Jamaica, during an exclusive preview for the Jamaica Observer earlier this week.
Many of the tiles present current data — such as reminders of meetings, the latest news bulletin, or the number of messages waiting to be read — without having to be clicked.
And they are presented on a "start screen" that scrolls left and right at the stroke of a finger.
"We used to think of Windows as a keyboard mouse and click interface," Smart said as she demonstrated Windows 8. "It's the fluidity and the interfacing that's new."
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/Microsoft-re-imagines-Windows-software_12836425#ixzz2AOGitGsL
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