Watch the new Windows 8 user interface demonstration [video]

By Tom Warren, on 1st Jun 11 11:29 pm with 54 Comments

Microsoft unveiled a new Windows 8 user interface on Wednesday.

The software giant also posted a full demo video of the new interface, see it below. For more information on the new Windows 8 user interface please see a full overview article here.

  • Anonymous

    me loves it. and me wants it <3

    • Anonymous

      awesome, finally a tablet which will be loved by both nerds and the general consumers.

      btw Tom.. this is a better link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I official MS with 1080p video.

    • http://twitter.com/oolong2 oolong2

      Nice…  Exactly what I what I was hoping for in a window touch UI.  Now what about stylus, camera, mutliple monitors, and other peripherals?

      Just show us what’s behind those blurred squares why don’t ya ;-)

    • Anonymous

      i’m glad i wasn’t the only one who noticed that. Ditto on the stylus and camera. That’s the real revolutionary stuff.

    • Anonymous

      I wanna know what the blurred parts are. XD

    • Anonymous

      I wanna know what the blurred parts are. XD

    • Anonymous

      I wanna know what the blurred parts are. XD

    • Anonymous

      awesome, finally a tablet which will be loved by both nerds and the general consumers.

      btw Tom.. this is a better link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I official MS with 1080p video.

  • Nguzmanm

    awesome XD

  • Nguzmanm

    awesome XD

  • Nguzmanm

    awesome XD

  • js

    it is so sexy, win8 FTW <3

  • Anonymous

    RELEASE THE KRAKEN !!!

  • Anonymous

    RELEASE THE KRAKEN !!!

  • GP007

    That UI is so smooth, and the snap feature is great!

  • http://twitter.com/DerBasti1993 Sebastian Halbig

    Wow! It’s so awesome! Can’t wait for it!

  • FatSon

    I’m all in! Microsoft is a brand new company since Bing was released. I will have a tablet with Windows 8 – Day ONE!

  • http://profiles.google.com/amxfonseca André Fonseca

    The power of the metro touch UI and in a single touch we can get all the power of classic interface? That thing just made my day

  • http://profiles.google.com/amxfonseca André Fonseca

    The power of the metro touch UI and in a single touch we can get all the power of classic interface? That thing just made my day

    • GP007

      And you can even have both at the same time side by side!

    • zzz

      The silly thing is in the video his says tiles are better then Icons but there is Icons on the tiles?  MS seems to be confused about their own OS, this does not bode well for it’s future…Vista all over again :(

    • Anonymous

      duhh,  you know what an icon is? Like iOS where for the weather you just see the icon of weather that looks like cloud, while this tiles can show the weather and the city , there have static and live tiles, the live tiles, updates information

      I dont think MS is confused, you are, 

  • Anonymous

    Wow!

  • FrozoneH

     Its awesome *-*

  • Anonymous

    release the thing now!!!!

  • Grannyville7989

    I’m surprised that I have found myself more excited for Windows 8 than I am for Mac OS X Lion. Makes me wonder if Apple has anything up their sleeves for WWDC.

  • Anonymous

    this is just great, now let’s wait for the haters

    • http://profiles.google.com/amxfonseca André Fonseca

      True. They cant appreciate the awesomeness

  • Anonymous

    I can’t describe how I feel :) ))))

  • SinofSky

    awesome,, gorgeouse,, beautiful… It;s SinofSky…

  • SinofSky

    awesome,, gorgeouse,, beautiful… It;s SinofSky…

  • SinofSky

    awesome,, gorgeouse,, beautiful… It;s SinofSky…

  • Anonymous

    Pretty cool looking stuff.

  • http://twitter.com/efjay01 Ef Jay

    I can envision all the computers in my house running Windows 8 now. Looks good!

  • ss

    very cool, but I was hoping they would make the regular windows task bar and window borders look metro too… maybe they still will.

  • http://www.aiowiki.com/wiki/User:Reddo Reddo

    Wow, I’m not a metro fan but that look ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!

  • http://www.aiowiki.com/wiki/User:Reddo Reddo

    Wow, I’m not a metro fan but that look ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!

  • Anonymous

    I’m pretty disappointed this looks a lot like media center. Of all MS’s products I feel media center was a horrible interface. I hope they do a lot more refining. I really hope to see a better cross between the courier and wp7.
    Also waiting to see if the pen plays a bigger part in this. That’s really what I want. Where touch, pen and mouse all share an equal stage. Would be sweet.

  • Anonymous

    The way app switching is done totally blows everyone out of the water!

  • Anonymous

    The way app switching is done totally blows everyone out of the water!

  • http://twitter.com/Polychromenz Tony Gorham

    too cool for school

  • Nicke

    Wow, awesome! Like a Windows Phone 7 system…

  • Anonymous

    To everyone asking for pen input… its already there… Microsoft probably wont stop OEMs from adding that functionality… and in the case of that HP flipping tablet thing with the double digitizer, you just upgrade from win7 to win8 and you’re good to go. It already has touch and pen.

    So you could theoretically just mess around on the internet and then decide to draw something in photoshop (64bit too!) with the pen.

    Actually, this is awesome.

  • Anonymous

    To everyone asking for pen input… its already there… Microsoft probably wont stop OEMs from adding that functionality… and in the case of that HP flipping tablet thing with the double digitizer, you just upgrade from win7 to win8 and you’re good to go. It already has touch and pen.

    So you could theoretically just mess around on the internet and then decide to draw something in photoshop (64bit too!) with the pen.

    Actually, this is awesome.

  • http://www.facebook.com/chsoriano Christopher Soriano

    Nice… finally we’ll have a tablet that doesn’t compromise functionality. Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Photos, etc. — check. Word, Outlook, Photoshop, Premier, Visual Studio, etc. (i.e., real software, not “apps”) — check.

  • Aldo Vellucci

    Omg it’s just windows 7 with an Android/Media Center add-in running at the same time.
    Unless this OS has better resource management than Windows 7 I doubt I’d ever upgrade to it voluntarily

  • Frylockns86

    HOLY FRAK. :O

  • http://twitter.com/tony_sutton Tony Sutton

    Interesting to see that at 3:04 when you load up Excel, it flashes the standard desktop before loading up Excel. It doesn’t do that for other applications, so I guess these Office suite needs an update to “integrate” it with Windows 8?

  • http://twitter.com/alisalem Ali Salem

    Looking great! I wonder how it would work on a desktop though.

  • Fotiswp7

    I am waiting for the Windows 8 RC in summer, like windows 7.

  • JohnDoe

    on a desktop this wont work. do Microsoft expect businesses and sane people to upgrade to this.

    • Anonymous

      Exactly it wont work thats why for desktop and laptops you can switch to the classic Desktop Ui with Taskbar,  which the Desktop is also improved in many ways
      This is winrumours didnt u see the leaked photos ? 

  • TryllZ

    Metro UI Metro UI everywhere but not a simgle tablet in production yet, when will I get my hands on ‘em ?, oh I can’t wait, seems like I’ll die if I don’t get 1…

  • Anonymous

    This is Super awesome