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hey guys so it's team here with a demo of what the Metro UI looks like on Windows 8 and of course Windows 8 has been a pretty major overhaul and probably the biggest new feature is the new UI it's very similar to what you would find in Windows Phone 7 of course blowing up for the big screen let me give you guys a quick little demo of some of the new features in Metro so the first thing is that there's this new lock screen it's very similar to what you might find on a phone or a tablet doesn't see here there's not a whole lot on here you'll see that you have your time your date does have any little indicators or icons that you need so for example there's my network but if I had other things other notifications whatever it would pop up there so to unlock it would you simply drag it off the screen and now we need to go ahead and put in our password slash unlock and there's a couple of ways to do this the first of which is to just punch in your password now in Windows 8 it does automatically want to connect to your Windows Live account so you would just put in you know the password for your hotmail or whatever and you can log in that way that's one way but if you don't wanna do a password you also have the option to putting in a pin number so you know just like on you know pretty much any tablet or ever you can just you know punch in whatever you know series of numbers but the last one is kind of unique and it is allows you to use a photo to unlock so the way this works is really simple you're able to pick out a photo so it can be a picture I just took a random photo here but if you need to have a picture whatever you can use whatever you want and the way it works is that you simply need to go ahead and make a pattern so you know you can take you know draw like things like lines and I can stuff I'm gonna start over but you can also do clicks and all kinds of different things to you know kind of make it unique so mine is I have need to click here click over here and click up on top of here and it will unlock so um I will say one thing it's not quite ideal sometimes it gets a little a little screwy doesn't really quite recognize it perfectly but it is early software and that is just one option so it's certainly no big deal alright so now that we're in the Metro UI yes and see here and of course if you didn't know already I am using just a standard computer with no mouse and keyboard so I can just scroll with the mouse wheel scroll along here can also use my directional buttons to go through here and type in whatever I want so the first thing I want to show you guys is just the live tiles you're gonna see here some of these right moving and showing you know new information so for example this one is just you know about build this is stocks font click line gonna blow up the stock application keep up with all my kind of stuff I can just hit the Windows key to back up this thing goes from my RSS feed I can you know add more drag all kinds of good stuff and again back it right out and I will be able to keep an eye on it now if I want to do some customization whatever I can will right-click it and then a couple of things so I can unpin it so I don't want it on this I can just get rid of it I can just uninstall it altogether just delete off my computer or I can make it smaller so you can see that there are different sized applications and I do kind of like this a little bit larger so I'll leave it double-wide I know some applications don't allow you do this so for example control panel it doesn't have anything to do other than just click on it so that's you know it's one thing but it's certainly no big deal and now of course you do have the option to go back to your standard Windows desktop so one of the nice things in Windows 8 is you can freely change between them using the Windows key so yeah very fluid very smooth and all that kind of stuff see here my RSS feed is a little bit messed up right now but again early software no big deal you can also go ahead and move stuff around so by clicking on it and holding it we can you know drag and drop it wherever we want it works pretty well but yeah nothing that you guys probably never seen before so I go ahead and show you guys a couple of apps that how they run on you know Metro and Windows 8 and everything so this is a new app so if I right-click that's kind of like well on a computer that pulls up kinda like the options so for example I can make a new text say hello YouTube I can of course do that also you know do some different things like fonts and all that kind of good stuff and I'm getting right-click I can capture pull properties it's kind of like just the whole let's just kind of the whole guide for using a standard application so yeah well you just right-click to kind of pull stuff up and you get on the tablet it will be different but I don't have a tablet right here so go ahead and show you guys how it works on a normal computer alright so let's go ahead show you guys another kind of application which is going to be a game well that take another good game so let's go ahead and open up the piano app and as you can see here it's a piano app now one of the things about this that makes a little bit different from something you know like a normal kind of app that you would do is that these are all very customizable to all kinds of different computers you know they're all work for touch work with the mouse and keyboard and work on you a 7-inch tablet or a 40 inch display you know whatever you want now there's only a couple of other things that do want to show you guys for one if you want to scroll of course like I said you can use a mouse wheel but if you don't feel like doing that there is a little bar they'll appear here that appears pretty much in any application that you need to scroll from left to right it really isn't unlike most windows it really isn't a whole lot of up and down spoiling a lot of it is just from side to side as you scroll back and forth in addition there also if you come over to the bottom left a couple things you know I can search so if I want to search for oh I don't know paint I can spell right I can search for paint open it up and no problems at all the only other thing I do want you guys is just really quickly here up top you can change your users dialogue lock log off all that kind of stuff and also the user tiles and all your data does kind of carry with you across different Windows 8 computers just because it all is logged into the same you know use live ID so everybody keep everything nice and synced hey look guys it's gonna be about it for my tour of the Metro UI in Windows 8 now there is a lot more than I wasn't able to show you but as you go ahead and take a look at Windows 8 for yourself you will notice a lot of these really cool little features if you guys enjoyed the video definitely be sure to leave it a thumbs up and if you're interested in more be sure to subscribe