Tour the first Windows 8 beta

by CNET News.com | February 29, 2012, 7:00am PST | Image 12 of 17

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Windows 8 is optimized for both tablets and PCs. It comes with several soft keyboards, and the main one is impressively responsive.

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Sixball 6th Mar 2012

I have to agree with Robiisan, Carl.lee4 and JohnPh: For professional work environments that mass-deploy Windows PCs - based on this presentation - entering a "facebook-style" screen at log in is unwarranted. Have to select to show the desktop? Shouldn't that come up at boot?

This looks like a new smart-phone OS that they've bloated to try and work on a PC. Why? When PC's boot "at work" we just want to get to work, not be inundated with widgets and apps and "Cuteness"...

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lofven 6th Mar 2012

I think the typical Windows user will be scared. They dont like changes, otherwise they would have already switched to Linux or Mac.

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davesden 5th Mar 2012

I think windows is going backwards it looks very aukward reminds me of my first windows experience, window for work groups.

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