Monday, January 14, 2013

Windows8: Introduction & Features - Walkthrough



Microsoft has released Windows8 with great features and graphics compared to before released operating systems. But still some users are hanged on Windows XP and Windows7.  However Windows7 was also a great features.

Here below I have listed some features of  windows8 that has never seen before this operating system.

Charm Bar

            Charm bar is a bar given right side to window screen. It contains Search, Share, Start, Devices and Setting button.  This bar can be popup by hovering your mouse pointer to top-right or bottom-right corner of the window or by pressing Ctrl + C also popups charm bar. By opening it also displays battery info, Date and time on the left side.


 

 

 

Settings

             As windows8 made for Tablet touch interface so that here settings are also designed according to touch interface. Though we can use mouse pointer instead of finger if using on non-touch device. As shown in below figure. You can change Users, Wireless, Notification, Search, General etc settings. However, we can change all this settings from Control Panel as well as in Windows 7.

Start Menu

           Windows 8 comes with totally charming and beautiful Start Menu, this type of menu has never seen in before released operating systems. This is specially designed for touch devices, so that here all apps icon is presented as tiles. This start menu contains Mail, People, Calender, Store, XBOX, Skydrive, Flickr Photos, Videos, Music, Maps, Internet Explorer etc. apps.

          By opening this apps and synchronizing with your Gmail, Facebook, Skydrive or other account you can chat online friends of Google Talk or Facebook Chat with Messaging application. Photos, Calender, Videos, Mail also will be synchronized automatically. People app will show your Facebook friends and their profiles. Store app is Windows Store from which you can download windows8 apps and games as well.  There are lots features that you can explore by experience.

Some New Shortcuts

+ C   >> Charm Bar
 
 + (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9)  >> Respected app on taskbar
 
+ Q        >>App Search 
 
 + W      >>  Setting Search 



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