“Here are a few aspects of the new interface we showed today: Fast launching of apps from a tile-based Start screen, which replaces the Windows Start menu with a customizable, scalable full-screen view of apps. • Live tiles with notifications, showing always up-to-date information from your apps. • Fluid, natural switching between running apps. • Convenient ability to snap and resize an app to the side of the screen, so you can really multitask using the capabilities of Windows. • Web-connected and Web-powered apps built using HTML5 and JavaScript that have access to the full power of the PC. • Fully touch-optimized browsing, with all the power of hardware-accelerated Internet Explorer 10.” - × × ×

Techmeme: http://www.techmeme.com/110601... - × × ×

Why Windows 8 Is Fundamentally Flawed as a Response to the iPad: http://daringfireball.net/2011... - × × ×