Windows 8 Revolution

Windows 8 officially launched simultaneously around the world on Friday, October 26, 2012. Microsoft's latest operating system is touted as the second major revolution in the family of Windows after Windows 95, which maximally exploit free interface.

There are three operating systems are launched, namely Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro, and Windows RT. Windows 8 is the most basic version intended for general users, Windows 8 Pro is intended for professionals, and Windows RT is Windows 8 specifically for ARM-based mobile devices.

Computers with Windows 8 operating system can run on any older versions Windows Office application. While Windows-based devices RT can only run applications designed specifically from the Windows Store.

Windows 8 Installation takes about 10 minutes. If the upgrade is performed on a Windows 7-based devices, personal files and settings to an earlier application can still be used.

Windows 8 screenshot. (Picture from: http://www.howtogeek.com/)

Windows 8 interface using the new pattern. Icons that had changed little boxy rectangular box that continues to date. This is similar to the view outside the widget function continues to change with it.

On the right side of the screen there is a Charm feature. Contents of a setting, search, move the display screen, and share content. Its function is to facilitate navigation from one view to another view.

Although designed specifically for a touch screen, Windows 8 can still be operated on a computer with a mouse and keyboard shortcuts. The goal is transition to the new system is not too surprising.

Here's music video of Windows 8 commercial song, Everything At Once by Lenka.

If you want to install Windows 8. First, you’ll want to make sure that your PC can run Windows 8, and thankfully the Windows 8 system requirements are basically the same as Windows 7. You can probably get away with installing this on a PC with lousy specs, but obviously you’ll have a better experience on a faster machine. Here’s the specs:

• 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
• Taking advantage of touch input requires a screen that supports multi-touch

Just head to dev.windows.com and download the ISO images from the page. Then head to the Microsoft Store page and download the USB/DVD Download Tool, which can put the ISO image onto a bootable flash drive for installation—all you have to do is choose the ISO, choose the drive, and wait for it to finish copying.

The setup process is nearly identical to Windows 7, so we’re not going to go into detail about it here. We’ll assume if you’re installing Windows 8 that you’re not a newb, and as such you shouldn’t need any help clicking through a couple of installer screens. *** [BUDI RIZA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | KORAN TEMPO 4040]

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