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what's up everyone John renter from TechnoBuffalo here I've had the Microsoft service with Windows RT for a few days not enough time for me to comfortably call it a review but I do want to share some overview of the operating system how it works what you can expect when you pick up Microsoft servers you test a Microsoft Surface or you just use a Windows 8 device in general let's get started alright so let's take a look at the Microsoft Surface I'm going to try and keep my editorializing and opinions to a minimum and throw all those giant opinions that you know I got a lot of them into the full review in a couple days but mostly what I want to show is how the operon system works and how it interacts with the surface hardware so we're going to talk a lot about gestures this big bezel area serves as a giant role with how you use the device so let's start with swiping up you go ahead and swipe up you get menus and that really is true without mostly applications so here in the OS if I go and swipe up I get that sort of menu where I can pin to desktop I can refresh I can go back and with really in all applications swiping up is going to give you that menu swiping down when you're an application is going to close it here when you're in the Start screens can open up the same applications but for example if we are looking at this since I'm done I could swipe down and close that I just kind of interesting way to close applications app switching is pretty cool here as well you swipe from the left hand side and swipe on in and I'll scroll through all the applications that you have open but what if you want to multitask well you do that same motion but then you go right back to where you started go out come back in and there you've got all your applications you can see where you want to jump to so I want to jump back and explore I can do that if I want to go back to the Start menu I can easily do that as well and at any point if you want to go back to the Start menu and that's what this is now the modern UI is the Start menu you could also hit that capacitive home button right there as well that's conveniently disguised as a Windows logo settings if you want to get to this one for some reason took me a while to figure out when I first charted using Windows 8 is swiped from the right hand side there you've got settings it's also where you want to turn off the screen for example there's power notification settings and screen brightness we'll live there as well and you can adjust that up or down and you get some tile settings that live there as well so here we are in the browser let's talk about Windows Explorer let's take any preconceived notions you have that Windows Explorer what the Internet has led you to believe throw them out the window Windows Explorer is actually really good here on the Microsoft Surface it's really fluid pinch-to-zoom it's buttery smooth like doing it whoo coming at you good Ballmer coming at you let's see ah yeah is he like steel very very smooth here uh and works extremely well Microsoft did include flash here you can show you what flash looks like I'll go ahead and go to YouTube for example and here's my unboxing of the Microsoft Surface and we'll hit play and then you can can hear it I will turn the volume down though it does get a little jittery but it's smooth enough to watch I would necessarily want to watch a full full length movie on it there definitely are some frames being skipped but it does work and it is serviceable and with the YouTube application you download from the store you can't log in and manage your videos you can see it skipped a little bit right there so doing it through the web is really gonna be the best way to do it so we'll go ahead and go home and so you know flash of course will play there obviously let's talk a little bit about the desktop that you can option here and the applications that come with it so we'll go ahead and hit test op and we get what looks like essentially Windows 7 and with Windows RT as opposed to Windows Pro this is really all you can do in this interface there are some built-in applications I'll show you in just a minute but if you want to install older applications that you have when you're Windows 7 this derp XP machine it's not gonna be able to do that on Windows RT you can't install minecraft Photoshop or any other Windows applications here only what Microsoft has given you and there aren't that many if you want to install full applications you're going to want to either wait for the pro version on the surface or pick up a pro version on the market right now what Microsoft does give you is pretty decent so you've got Explorer that's going to be like a regular int Explorer it's going to be different than what we just saw looks just like a regular browse and you go ahead and plate it any way you want with your finger or if you have the touch cover you can use it as a mouse and type in the URL that way and clothing applications is the same way to go ahead and hit the X but they did give us a full version Microsoft Office which is kind of neat something show you what that looks like you may not have seen what office 13 looks like so here's word 2013 10 different templates to choose from going to take a look at a blank document and it looks kind of familiar there's a lot of new things under the hood here but speed is really good so you can input stuff a few ways you can either just tap the screen a keyboard in theory will show up there it is show up then you can type that way we'll go ahead and hide the keyboard if you've got a touch color for example typing works really quickly and is really once one as soon as you touch it one of the best things about the surface for me really is the touch cover I'll talk a little bit about that in the review but I've absolutely loved it and again I promise to keep my editorial izing down touch cover though is really awesome the mouse and the clicking everything works very well so if you're looking to take notes in class you want something you can carry with you a very good option so there's what word looks like I will jump into excel I'm not closing any applications I'm opening them up as we go and there is Excel and it looks pretty much like Excel I don't like we've seen anywhere else you're probably saying okay so we multitasks in the modern UI by swiping this way can you still do that the answer is nope if you swipe back you are going to be brought back to the Start screen so I'll go ahead and go back home and here we are back at the modern UI so another cool thing is multitasking this thing does multitasking pretty well so go ahead and find something that's a good demonstration of this let's go ahead and check out the store and I'll give you guys a toilet store in a minute but say I also want to check out Internet Explorer so I'll go ahead and do that so now I'm an explorer but you know what I realize I want to go back to the store I want to check whether ever it might be go ahead and drag it halfway you can go ahead and view what any other application that you wanting to the video still playing I can make you like this just as I would as its own app I want to make it bigger I can make it bigger and I can sort of share the screen great if you want to browse the web and check your email on one of the side screens it's just a very cool way that Microsoft has integrated multitasking we'll go ahead and go home I'm gonna go and show you the App Store here as well not that populated right now but certainly expect that to change let's sort of the standard stuff it expects no dedicated Facebook app as of yet we do have some of the important ones of course you've got Skype Hulu Netflix you can see it's broken out by categories spotlights some games Angry Birds Space Rory is a Twitter application how stuff works most of the applications that you would use the core applications you'll find either them or equivalents here but there are a lot of choice in is a very pretty UI as really is everything with Windows 8 it's very pretty it's very visually appealing I'm going to again save my opinion for the full review look for that later on in the week anything you guys want to make sure I cover be sure to leave your comments down below of who you guys think about the surface with Windows RT for now I'm John render from TechnoBuffalo be sure to check us out and for the latest in greatest tech news and I'll see you guys next video you