Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Windows 8 First Look: ‘Live Tiles’ And An App Store - Saeo

Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Windows 8 First Look: ‘Live Tiles’ And An App Store - Saeo

Microsoft on Wednesday offered the first sneak peak of the next version of Windows—a touch-friendly OS that the company is counting on to finally make it a player in the red-hot tablet market.

Windows 8, as the operating system is called, at least for now, borrows heavily from Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 mobile OS. Its Start menu, for instance, uses Windows Phone’s Live Tiles interface.

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The tiles, which can be customized by the user, feed real-time data from social networks, e-mail accounts, messaging systems and other services directly to the home screen. The tiles can also be expanded to fill the whole screen to create a true tablet look.

Touch-enabled browsing will be assisted by hardware acceleration built into Explorer 10, Microsoft said.