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hey guys this is adam lane with pacquiao com I've been using tablets for about 10 years so when windows 8 consumer preview came out didn't take me too long to decide to install it on my old tablets so this is one from before the original iPad came out and we're going to take a look at a few things and maybe compared a little bit to Windows Phone let's check it out okay so here we have windows 8 consumer preview install on my old HP touchsmart tm2 and right away we see some similarities to Windows Phone 7 you got the clock it's pretty big there this is the lock screen we have the date we have a signal strength battery level calendar messages and emails will show up here as well and just like when those phone is swipe it up but now we have a picture lock screen so there we go and here's your Start screen and you can tell it looks a lot like Windows Phone we have tiles and they're moving and flipping around can see that there but there's one big difference this is a much larger screen so Windows Phone was designed to be one handed I can flick through and see everything like that it's very easy all in one hand tablets are not like that these are much larger usually you're probably going to hold it with the left hand or one hand like so and maybe interactive loop interact with it with your other hand or maybe hold it with both hands so that's why we have windows 8 interface is much different so see if I'm holding it with this hand I just swipe like that and I get some controls or I swipe like this and I'm flicking through different apps and if I swipe and then swipe back this is a very cool feature thumbnails of all the running programs so you can very easily switch to whatever you want this weather app is a little slow starting up sometimes but we have the panoramic view again this is similar to some Windows Phone hubs so very smooth very nice looking so I can share things with anything that supports the share menu I don't have much here yet so let's look at the browser this is much smoother than previous versions of Windows on tablets windows 7 I think it's a little more choppy than the developer preview of windows 8 however but you can see it's very smooth and you'll also see there's no chrome there's no controls for anything you have to swipe there's my address bar I can pin this the start menu I can check out different tabs there's a little menu for a couple of features and always we can switch very easily now let's check out the xbox stuff there's some very nice Xbox integration there's my avatar recent games a lot of cool stuff from windows phone is coming into Windows 8 is the xbox companion we'll see if it works so now this is connected to my xbox and it's similar to the xbox companion on Windows Phone we can do some browsing and we can launch games straight to the Xbox from here you're also supposed to be able to play music or it doesn't seem to work right now but this is the music app and it looks really nice actually this is the companion app doing the music stuff the actual music app looks really nice too and it looks a very much Xbox designed not so much a zune but you'll see a little bit of remnants of zing so there's your music app very cool design it also notice the people tile here is integrated with facebook it's also integrated with a linkedin twitter exchange all that is supported right in the People Hub messaging also supports facebook and windows live messenger so that's really nice to have very cool of course there's SkyDrive and that will load some SkyDrive stuff maps is another cool feature again same kind of name naming convention as Windows Phone and it works really nicely now all this full screen Metro stuff is a fun and whatnot but if you want to get some real work done we can always go into the desktop and get to any kind of real program so here's a premiere pro we can do some video editing this interfaces are obviously not an optimized for touch however so I gotta pull out the stylus and of course that's pretty easy and if I want to design a exhibit was some 3d graphics that's very easy to do of course better with a stylus because obviously these buttons are very tiny same Photoshop is here I can do whatever I want here so some very powerful programs are still accessible on this tablet even though we have a very nice windows phone touch tablet interface so overall I have been extremely impressed with the new interface for windows 8 for tablets with windows 7 I was quite content with the touch interface on that operating system but with this it just brings a whole new level of ergonomics and ease of use and I really like that they win this direction instead of making a you know kind of a dumb down operating system like you know putting windows phone on a tablet because I still have access to all these great programs like degree or sweetened office 2010 you know full programs granted they're more difficult to use it gotta pull out a stylist but I'm okay with that and if you don't want to use those you can just use this great new Metro interface for all sorts of things you know great integration so that's windows 8 consumer preview first impressions I really enjoy knit that give us a thumbs up if you liked this video and that's it for now Oh