14 DAY TRIAL // Today at the CeBIT show in Germany, Microsoft has detailed some of the business features that its Windows 8 platform comes to the market with.
Kevin Turner, chief operating officer at Microsoft Corp., took the stage to discuss the potential that Windows 8 comes with by bringing together the power of tablets and that of desktop PCs.
Microsoft brought the newly released Windows 8 Consumer Preview at the event, and also invited IT professionals around the world to try it.
The Windows 8 Consumer Preview comes with full capabilities when it comes to testing the latest release of the world’s most popular operating system.
The new platform release, which is nothing more than the beta flavor of Windows 8, was made available for download for free for all the people interested in giving it a try. You can find the download link available at the bottom of this article.
“Windows 8 will deliver no compromise experiences on a range of devices from tablets and PCs to desktops. It will give people functionality they love and the enterprise-grade capabilities that IT departments demand,” Turner said.
“We encourage IT professionals to begin using it to get a firsthand experience of how Windows 8 will give people a beautiful, fast and fluid experience with the mobility and familiarity they need to effortlessly move between what they want to do and what they need to do.”
Al Gillen, program vice president, system software, IDC, notes that the research firm is confident in Windows 8’s ability to provide users with a solution that can enhance business productivity.
Moreover, Windows 8 is expected to provide IT professionals with the possibility to easily manage and secure new devices using existing infrastructures and tools.
“Windows 8 will help bridge the demands that end users are placing on IT departments with what IT wants for its business — a smooth transitional path to add tablet devices into an existing Windows client infrastructure,” Gillen concluded.
Along with Windows 8 Consumer Preview, which can be found available for download from Softpedia via this link, Microsoft also put up for grabs Windows Server "8", though only for IT professionals.