New and beautiful user interface

Metro style
Windows 8 introduces a new Metro style interface, which shows the information important to you, embodies
simplicity, and gives you control. The interface is a personalized layout with clean typography and animations
to make interacting with your PC fluid and intuitive. The new interface is built for touch. With touch, you can
do what you want to do quickly and naturally. The new Start screen puts all of your apps in front of you for
immediate access. You don’t have to remember where things are. And whether you want to type, click, or
swipe, Windows 8 is optimized for easier navigation so moving around the operating system is effortless with
either a finger, or a mouse and keyboard.


It all starts here
The new Start screen gives you a fast way to interact with all of your apps and content. The tiles are alive with
information, showing you what’s going on at any time. Information that you care about — the weather, your
friends’ status updates, the top movie in your Netflix queue, your next calendar appointment — is all there at
a glance. You can personalize your Start screen with shortcuts to your favorite things, like websites, a playlist,
or photo albums. You decide where you want things on the screen and how you want them grouped. You can
optimize for efficiency by adding speed bumps between groups of apps so that you don’t have to swipe back
and forth when you’re panning through your Start screen.

Touch keyboard
Windows 8 has two touch keyboards for ultimate mobility and flexibility. An improved, full-sized touch
keyboard with larger buttons and a unique thumb keyboard make it easy to use your computer on the
go. Whether you’re walking around or sitting down, it’s more comfortable and natural to type using your
thumbs when the keyboard is split.

The touch keyboard in Windows 8 includes several features to speed up your typing and make it more  
accurate. Improved keyboard technology is designed to minimize inaccurate key strokes while automatically
correcting mistyped words without slowing you down. To make typing more efficient, Windows suggests
words on screen as you type, allowing you to choose the suggested word with a single tap.The keyboard adapts to different languages. On touch-based computers, the layout of the keyboard
automatically adjusts to the language you choose for Windows. Your input and language settings
automatically apply to the whole computer rather than to just specific programs.

One Windows – many shapes
Support 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, ultra-lightweight laptops, and
powerful all-in-ones with 27-inch high-definition screens. Regardless of which device you use, improvements
in the core of the Windows operating system result in faster boot time, more efficient app management, and
substantially reduced memory usage. Windows 8 is powerful and responsive.