Windows 8 a fost prezentat oficial. Descarcă de aici versiunea Consumer Preview

Iată la ce trebuie să va aşteptaţi de la Windows 8:

• App Compatibility and Device Compatibility

• App Store

• Applications and Media Experience

• App Experience

• Core Experience Evolved

• Device Connectivity

• Devices & Networking Experience

• Ecosystem Fundamentals

• Engineer Desktop

• Engineering System

• Enterprise Networking

• Global Experience

• Graphics Platform

• Hardware Developer Experience

• Human Interaction Platform

• Hyper-V

• In Control of Your PC

• Kernel Platform

• Licensing and Deployment

• Media Platform

• Networking Core

• Performance

• Presentation and Composition

• Reliability, Security, and Privacy

• Runtime Experience

• Search, View, and Command

• Security & Identity

• Storage & Files Systems

• Sustained Engineering

• Telemetry

• User-Centered Experience

• Windows Online

• Windows Update

• Wireless and Networking services

• XAML

Cerinţe Windows 8

Windows 8 are aceleaşi cerinţe de sistem sau chiar puţin mai jos decât predecesorul său, Windows 7.

Cerinţele minime, conform Windows 8 News, sunt:

• Procesor la 1 GHz;

• 1 GB RAM (pentru versiune de OS pe 32 de biţi) sau 2 GB RAM (pentru versiunea pe 64 de biţi);

• 16 GB spaţiu liber pe HDD / SSD (32 biţi) sau 20 GB (64 biţi);

• Placă video cu suport DirectX 9 şi drivere WDDM sau mai noi