Microsoft Windows 8 Explored at BUILD 2011 Conference

by Dave Altavilla — Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 08:57 PM EDT

Windows 8 is damned impressive. That's our one-sentence summary of the company's keynote and it applies despite the appearance of a few bugs and hiccups during the on-stage OS demonstrations. The new operating system shares certain design elements with Windows Phone 7, but it's far from a large-screen version of Microsoft's smartphone OS. When Steven Sinofsky, President of the Windows division at Microsoft, wrote that "Windows 8 re-imagines Windows" and implied that this would be the largest overhaul since Windows 95, he wasn't exaggerating.

Windows 8 Explored at BUILD 2011

Tags: Microsoft, Windows, Enterprise, build, Windows 8, Metro

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