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hey everyone welcome to the inside scoop I'm cars Tsuboi cnet.com joined by senior editor Seth Rosenblatt to tell us all about Microsoft's brand new operating system Windows 8 News 8 and this is the very first operating system that is touch-enabled writes up first one from Microsoft absolutely and they've designed it to work on laptops desktops and tablets and these laptops desktops tablets don't necessarily have to be touch enabled to run the operating system absolutely so they've ripped they've priced an upgrade at forty dollars so if you want to upgrade your old windows 7 windows vista or windows XP machine you can do that and it's fairly affordable so right now you're holding a touch-enabled laptop a sony laptop that's running the new OS show us a little something so you can see you swipe through your tiles you can jump into a tile we are and then to get out of that and to get out of that you can go to your Start menu there so what do you think of the user interface so far I've been using it in various forms for about a year it's fairly stable it's very fast very fast to boot very fast to wake from sleep it's also the most secure operating system that Microsoft's ever put out and those are very good reasons to upgrade one thing that may confuse some people is there is a desktop mode that looks a lot like Windows 7 sure because it is yeah or it is mostly so you have this and you still have your charms bar there so you can jump back to your metro and the desktop mode is what allows you to run legacy programs uh-huh and when can the public get their hands on the new OS sure it's available on october 26th right and what do you think this really means for the company moving forward that's the that's the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question for Microsoft I think that this is really about making themselves relevant again it's a very aggressive move it's a huge change they're putting out all kinds of new hardware they've never had hardware restrictions on their manufacturers this tight before so there's a lot that could go very well for Microsoft there's a lot that could go wrong okay well we will be stayin tuned and if you'd like to get any tips tricks and reviews of windows 8 you can log on to cnet com thank you so much thank you Seth Rosenblatt I'm car tsuboi you've been watching the inside scoop on cnet com