Beautiful, fast, fluid
Windows has been reimagined to focus on your life. The beautiful, fast, and fluid design is perfect for a range of hardware: from compact, touch-enabled tablets and lightweight laptops, to PCs and large, powerful all-in-ones with high-definition screens. It's smooth, intuitive, and gives you instant access to your people, apps, and stuff, so you spend less time searching and more time doing.
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Beautiful, fast, fluid
Windows has been reimagined to focus on your life. The beautiful, fast, and fluid design is perfect for a range of hardware: from compact, touch-enabled tablets and lightweight laptops, to PCs and large, powerful all-in-ones with high-definition screens. It's smooth, intuitive, and gives you instant access to your people, apps, and stuff, so you spend less time searching and more time doing.
Specifications
Windows 7, only better:
- Windows 8 is built on the rock-solid foundation of Windows 7, but it's been improved on all fronts.
- You can install Windows 8 on the same hardware that powers Windows Vista and Windows 7, and you'll love how it works on new devices, too.
- Windows 8 was designed with Windows 7 apps in mind, because you probably have older apps you need to use.
- In addition to the new look of the Start Screen, Windows 8 incorporates the desktop that you're familiar with.
- Think of the desktop as one of the many apps you can run in Windows 8.
- In the desktop, you'll see all the settings, devices and features you used in Windows 7-and you can run the desktop apps you ran in Windows 7, too.
Cloud-connected with your Microsoft account:
- Sign in to your Windows 8 device with your Microsoft account and you're immediately connected to the people, files and settings you care about.
- Your PC comes to life with all the things that make Windows yours, including your Start page, themes, language preferences, browsing history and browser favourites.
- You can connect your favourite services to your Microsoft account, too, like Hotmail, Messenger, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and more.
- And you can immediately get to your photos, docs and other files, whether they're on SkyDrive, Facebook, Flickr or other services.
It's all about the apps:
- In the Windows Store, you can search for or browse great apps, all grouped in easy-to-find categories.
- We highlight great apps for you and provide quick access to frequently downloaded apps.
- You can also see how other people have rated apps.
- You'll always know what's interesting, new and popular.
- You won't have to worry about buying something you don't want because you can try before you buy, if the app supports it.
- If you try an app and like it, you can buy it and continue using the full app with no interruption.
- You won't waste time or lose your place.
Processor (64-bit):
- 1 GHz or faster
Hard Disk:
- 20 GB available space
Memory:
- 2 GB RAM
- DVD/CD authoring requires a compatible optical drive
Others:
- 1366 x 768 screen resolution
- Graphics hardware acceleration requires a DirectX 9 graphics card with WDDM driver
- Microsoft account required for some features. Watching DVDs requires separate playback software. Windows Media Center license
- Internet access
- Depending on resolution, video playback may require additional memory and advanced graphics hardware
- For some Windows Media Center functionality, a TV tuner and additional hardware may be required
- Windows Touch and Tablet PCs require specific hardware
- Music and sound require audio output
- Some features may require advanced or additional hardware