Say hello to Windows 8, Microsoft’s next-generation operating system.Microsoft will post the first developer preview beta of Windows 8 late , the company announced as it showed off the new OS running on a Samsung tablet.
The 5,000 developers in attendance will each get their copies along with a tablet produced by Samsung, preloaded with this early edition of Windows 8. The “Developer Preview PC,” as it is called, runs an Intel Core i5 processor, a 1366 -by-768 pixel touch sensitive display, a 64GB solid state drive, and 4GB of DDR3 memory.
Such a portable device is typical of the new tablets and touch screen devices Microsoft is hoping Windows 8 will power. “Things are a lot different than in 1995, the last time Windows went through a major change,” Sinosfky said.
Windows 8 is Microsoft’s first significant step beyond the traditional desktop-bound OS, as well as the first major challenger that company has presented to Apple’s popular iPad.
