14 DAY TRIAL // The first Windows 8 details were certainly devoured quite fast by a starved audience which had to content itself with speculation and leaked details until this week’s D9 and Computex conferences. Microsoft still hasn’t invited the public to the Windows 8 feast, but in all fairness, the software giant did serve an assortment of "crumbs" in the first official taste of the next version of Windows.
One illustrative example of the public’s hunger for any sort of Windows 8 details is related to the success of the Building "Windows 8" - Video #1.
The first official Windows 8 demo video shoot past the 2 million views mark in a little over a day since it was introduced.
At the time of this article, the Building "Windows 8" - Video #1 was viewed no less than 2,114,606 times, and I can honestly say I don’t understand the Redmond company’s move to not allow comments, since it would have been a great source of feedback, filtering all the irrelevant input of course.
The video in question as well as the D9 demonstration courtesy of Julie Larson-Green, Corporate Vice President, Windows Experience, focused on the marriage of concepts such as natural user interface (NUI) and graphical user interface (GUI) on next generation form factors.
Larson-Green demoed the new Windows 8 Start Screen, Internet Explorer 10, Live Tiles, multitasking, application snapping functionality, HTML5 apps, and multitouch interaction optimizations.
The good news is that Microsoft has started talking Windows 8, evident in the way that Microsoft labeled the content shared with the public this week, Building "Windows 8" - Video #1.
More importantly, everything that users see in the demo videos will actually make it in the RTM Build of Windows 8, otherwise, Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division would not have allowed it to be made public, per the translucency communication strategy he implemented even before Windows 7.
In the end, I think it’s a safe bet to expect Sinofsky to underpromise and overachieve with Windows 8, just as he did with Windows 7.
I can tell you that all the feedback that I’ve received so far on the Windows 8 demos, save for a minute part, has been extremely positive. I still think it would have been interesting to hear some opinions from the 2+ million viewers of the Building "Windows 8" - Video #1.
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