Windows 8 is the first edition of Windows to operate on both ARM-based tablets and traditional x86 PCs based on ARM processors from Intel and AMD. \u201cSupport for ARM-based chipsets, touch, and sensors makes Windows 8 work beautifully on your choice of a full spectrum of devices, such as 10-inch slates with all-day battery life<\/a>, ultra-lightweight laptops, and powerful all-in-ones with 27-inch high-definition screens,\u201d Microsoft contends, in a Windows 8 Guide distributed with Windows Developer Preview<\/p>\n In addition, the ARM edition of Windows 8 includes a new mode dubbed \u201calways on, always connected,\u201d designed to let tablets act like smartphones. Tablets can remain in standby mode without disconnecting from the Internet, and then wake up instantly.<\/p>\n Windows 8 is designed to work seamlessly across both PCs and ARM tablets. Yet until developers get a real start on apps for Microsoft\u2019s still empty Windows Store, it\u2019s tough to tell whether that will be universally true.<\/p>\n 2. Touch-centric, Tiles-based\u00a0User Interface (UI)<\/strong><\/p>\n Although Windows 8 might look and feel like an entirely new \u201cuser experiemce,\u201d, Microsoft is actually layering a new animation-enabled user interface (UI) on top of an only somewhat upgraded Windows 7.<\/p>\n The Windows 8 Start Menu is customizable through a mosaic of tiles, which differ from traditional desktop icons by letting you view live information from Windows 8 Metro style apps without actually accessing the apps.<\/p>\n In demoing the tile-based UI at last week\u2019s Build conference , Microsoft showed how the tile for a Windows 8 weather app is able to display the current temperature in a city \u2013 along with projected temperatures for the next two days \u2013 without requiring you to open up the app. A tile for Windows Live Mail will show you your latest message, while a tile for a social networking app will show you notifications.<\/p>\n \u201cThe [Metro] apps are full-screen. They\u2019re beautiful.They\u2019re designed for touch, but of course, they work great with a mouse and keyboard as well if that\u2019s what you have. We wanted to make it really fast and fluid for you to switch between them,\u201d according to Jensen Harris, lead program manager on the Microsoft Office User Experience..<\/p>\n Windows 8 users are also able to access Windows 7 apps<\/a>. \u201cEverything that runs on Windows 7 will run on Windows 8,\u201d maintained Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft\u2019s Windows and indows Live division, during a keynote at the Build conference. However, in order to access Windows 7 apps, you need to switch to a different built-in UI.<\/p>\n 3. Charms<\/strong><\/p>\n In large part, \u2018charms\u2019 is a new implementation of the traditional Windows start bar. Charms can also be used to quickly configure settings for individual apps. On an ordinary non-touch PC, charms are accessed by dragging the mouse to the bottom-left corner of the screen, to the same spot as the old Windows start button. On a tablet, you swipe from the right side of the screen to bring Microsoft recently applied for a trademark on charms. The charms sidebar offers five sets of options, supporting both app-specific settings and system settings such as volume and brightness. The options include Start, Search, Share, Devices, and Settings. The Start option returns the user to the home screen. The Devices option presents a list of connected devices. Under the Share option, users can see social network sharing apps.<\/p>\n Dell vostro 1500 laptop batteries<\/a> \u2013 brand new 4400mAh Only AU $61.29 | Australia Post Fast Delivery<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Dell latitude d620 laptop batteries<\/a> \u2013 brand new 5200mAh Only AU $66.91<\/p>\n HP 484170-001 laptop batteries<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 brand new 4400mAh, li-ion only AU $60.85<\/p>\n 4. Snap Multi-tasking<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018Snap multitasking\u201d is designed to make it easy to run two apps in Windows 8 side-by-side, to resize them, and to switch between them. On the right-hand side of the screen, you can snap an app into place.<\/p>\n You can make an app smaller or larger by dragging the bar for the app. To switch between apps in Windows 8, you swipe from the left-hand part of the screen.<\/p>\n However, Windows 8 does not allow you to view all of your running apps on a single screen.<\/p>\n 5. Windows 8 Control Panel<\/strong><\/p>\n Beyond revamping the Windows task manager, Microsoft has also redesigned the control panel for Windows 8.\u00a0 New options include Personalize, Users, Wireless, Notifications, General, Privacy, Search, and Share.<\/p>\n As Metro style apps become available, you’ll be able to use the Personalize menu to customize the Start menu with tiles for calendar, music, e-mail, Netflix, and much more. In a demo at Build, Julie Larson-Green, Microsoft’s corporate VP of program management for Windows, showed how you\u2019ll be able to position these Metro apps on the screen, and also to combine them into groups such as friends and games.<\/p>\n 6. Web Navigation by Touch<\/strong><\/p>\n The Internet Explorer (IE) 10 browser built into Windows 8 is designed to offer faster browsing through greater hardware acceleration, along with rapid gesture-based zoom, pan, and Web site navigation.<\/p>\n As in other areas of Windows 8, you can quickly access Windows 8 charms, as well as the two keyboards described below.<\/p>\n 7. Two Touch Keyboards<\/strong><\/p>\n Windows 8 also contains two soft keyboards: an \u201cenhanced\u201d traditional keyboard, plus a new thumbs keyboard for non-touch typists.<\/p>\n In efforts by Microsoft to make typing on a virtual keyboard faster and more accurate, the revised edition of the conventional keyboard suggests words on the screen as you type. You can then tap to selected a suggested word.\u00a0 Microsoft also provides a spellcheck-like feature designed to automatically correct mistyped words \u2013 although The keyboards are also aimed at automatically adjusting to whaever human language you choose for Windows. These language settings will automatically apply to the entire computer, instead of only to specific apps<\/p>\n 8. \u2018Enhanced Copy Experience\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Windows 8 also introduces the ability to perform all current copy operations into a single dialog box, instead of requiring you to perform file copying in separate dialog boxes for each app.<\/p>\n The new dialog box for file copying lets you pause, resume, and stop each sopy operation currently under way. It will also warn you if you\u2019re beginning to copy one version of a file on top of another.<\/p>\n Microsoft has also added a realtime throughput graph. \u201cNow each copy job shows the speed of data transfer, the transfer rate trend, and how much data is left to transfer. While this is not designed for benchmarking, in many cases it can provide a quick and easy way to assess what is going on for a particular [copy] job,\u201d noted Alex Simons, director of program management with the Windows 8 management team.<\/p>\n 9. Native USB 3.0 Support<\/strong><\/p>\n New USB 3.0 ports operate at speeds up to ten times faster than )SB 2.0. To better support these speeds, Microsoft is outfitting Windows 8 with native USB 3.0 drivers.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, though, USB 3.0 will purportedly continue to work under Windows 7, through the use of third-party drivers.<\/p>\n \u201cBy 2015, all new PCs are expected to offer USB 3.0 ports, and over 2 billion new \u2018SuperSpeed\u2019 USB devices will be sold in that year alone,\u201d said Dennis Flanagan, director of program management for the Windows 8 Devices and Networking Group, in a blog post. \u201cThere are also billions of older USB devices that Windows must remain compatible with.\u201d<\/p>\n 10. Better Support for Multiple Monitors<\/strong><\/p>\n Windows 8 also brings increased support for multiple monitors, The Developers Preview of the new OS includes first-time capabilities for extending the taskbar across two PCs, without any need for third-party apps. You can also stretch wallpaper across two monitors, or display the Start screen on one PC and the desktop on the other, for instance.<\/p>\n It’s also easy to switch between multiple monitors. The primary monitor has a start button, and the secondary monitor has a switcher button. Clicking or tapping on the switcher button will swap it out for the start button, allowing you to turn the secondary monitor into the primary one.<\/p>\n Read More<\/p>\n HP Laptop Battery Knowledge Base<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.notebookreview.com\/assets\/60744.jpg\")
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