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hey guys so team you with video detailing my thoughts on Windows 8 so the Microsoft build conference just wrapped up and there's showed a lot of really cool new stuff with Windows 8 and overall I'm really quite impressed now going into it there's a lot of questions I had about Windows a you know what about the interface how is it gonna work this that does that but a lot of my questions have been answered and there's also some really cool things that they have added so let's go ahead and go over some of the things that really stood out to me so the number one thing was the interface and that was the big thing that was worried about you know of course you know Windows has had a fairly similar interface ever since Windows 95 you have your taskbar have a window you hit your Windows key you can pull up the menu you have your desktop all the stuff has been pretty typical it hasn't really changed much ever since then however with Windows 8 there's an all new interface called the Metro UI you guys would probably be familiar with the Metro UI first came out on the Zune HD a few years back and it is on all the Windows Phone 7 devices that are available on the market right now personally I'm a big fan of it I like the and the kind of the fonts and the way it kind of has transitions everything it's a very nice looking interface and I do like it for coming over to Windows and you being able to be on your computers and everything hello my main concern with it is that it's really made as a touchscreen so may be able to tap it to you know to fly between the different pages and all that kind of stuff to swipe up your menus and all that kind of stuff that's really what it is made for and while they didn't really show anything that you know just blew my mind just made me go oh I absolutely made for keyboard mouse it will should work just fine for keyboards and mouse however the thing I really do want to well the thing it didn't let change my mind at all about is that Metro you interface is still going to be mostly focused towards tablets as well as computers with touch screens which of course make it a little bit more popular but I know for the time being I'm seeing myself getting away from the keyboard and mouse now one of the most important things that I do want to know stress does I have a lot of people you know asking questions before is that there are going to be 2uy highs in Windows and a little confusing but let me go ahead and try to explain so normally there's going to be the Metro UI which of course is meltin like I said mostly stores you know touch screens and that kind of stuff although you can't navigate with a mouse and keyboard without any major problems however that's not the only interface if you want you can switch over to the standard Windows 7 style interface we used to have you on your desktop your icons all that kind of stuff it's going to work very very similarly now the way they're going to be able to Changez you can do with a keyboard shortcut or whatever you can change him between these and really really quite simple it's not like yeah can you shut your computer off or anything both are running at the exact same time so I think it's gonna be you the best of both worlds if you want to just you know continue using Windows like you use me you know with Windows 7 you can certainly do that but if you have a tablet or you want to use the Metro UI it's not going to be a problem so big thumbs up to Microsoft there I think they did a good job now another thing is what kind of you know compatibility a lot of kind of stuff that Windows 8 is gonna have well it will have be compatible with pretty much any computer that's running Windows 7 and of course continuing on with that pretty much any computer that ran Windows Vista either should be compatible with Windows 8 so it's gonna be really easy on root system resources in fact they showed it was running really really quite easily on a one gigabyte netbook so you can run on that should be able to run pretty well on anything now one thing that also kind of jumped out at me while I was watching it was that they were talking about and you're like how fast is and how speedy and if you look at the video you'll see that you know everything just happens fast you know the transitions everything is really crisp there's no stutter there's no lag of course it was there's you know it's not like you know they were using you know all the machines they had tried and everything so it's not a perfect example but from what we do know is actually there is a pretty good reason why you should run your smooth and that's because it's pretty much a test across the board into your GPU so you have familiar most of your notes to your CPU and all that kind of stuff what runs your computer it just run off your CPU so if you know if you have a little bit lag or bottlenecks or whatever it's just going to be basically totally dependent on your CPU however all computers have GPUs we just typically used to be used for you know just doing on graphics and you know like running your desktop a little bit but for most part your gaming and that kind of thing however the entire UI is going to be focused on using your GPU so just put it really simple it's going to be running pretty much better across the board which is good it's good that they're tapping into all the parts that they can on your computer to make it run the best that it can I know the last thing I wanted to talk about was the apps now one thing that's been a problem for Windows users for a very long time then you know it's a little bit better on Mac and Linux in my opinion is downloading apps programs whatever you want to call them and of course you know not having an app strap was never a big deal to me but the thing is there of course lots of viruses there are also kind of lots of frak where so you download a program and install this you know toolbars or installs this or that and a lot of time that's not really what you want and they become very difficult to uninstall and it's just it's just a big mess helper well with Windows 8 you should still be able to download and you know just do it you know you can install stuff by yourself of course but in addition there also will be the Windows app store and what the Windows app stores all about is the very similar experience to the Apple App Store for the iPhone the iPad and the Mac App Store of course as well now what's really sets them apart is not so much the fact you know that they're wildly different of course they both have a vetting process where you know you submit apps if you're a developer submit apps they'll go through your app and you know assuming it goes and makes it through and you don't have any major problems that will be put onto the windows App Store but one of the biggest things but for me is it's just going to help cut down on the crap on you just the kind of stuff that you don't really want now well they didn't go exactly in-depth into the rules from what I would have to imagine Microsoft has got to be more lenient than app will allow more different kinds of apps available about you know really restricting it like a lot of the kinds of silly things that Apple does deny on their app stores so what I'm really hoping for is that it really does become you know go to place you don't have to go you know download these things here and there and everything you can just download it there you know that's gonna be secure they've gone over it you at least gives you a little bit security so that you know all of sudden fine you know pop-ups and spyware and stuff which does happen from time to time on Windows I know many guys it's gonna be about it for my major things there work some other things that jumped out at me like the Windows Live integration and just need general overall and you know just a look and feel of it but that's gonna be about it I do want to keep this video fairly brief if you guys are interested in checking out Windows 8 for yourself it will go lie tonight at 8 o'clock Eastern Time I'll have a link in the description so if you guys want to check it out of course as soon as I can I will get a hands on of it and you know give you guys my full thoughts and opinions if you guys enjoyed this video definitely be sure to give it a like and if you're interested in seeing more Windows 8 videos as it comes out and as new new things are announced definitely be sure to subscribe to the channel