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hey guys this is a Tom from the verge and we're here having a look at an early version of windows 8 consumer preview that's obviously on the desktop here you'll notice in the bottom left there's no start or start button orb anymore and but you can get to the usual start button from here she's literally to swipe and you'll get the charms bar here and this will take us straight into the Metro interface now I've seen a developer preview that we didn't have the semantic zoom so now we can demonstrate that it literally pinch to get that and you can drag down on the on the tiles here and name them so go in change that to test so this is a good way to sort like group applications and what you will notice as we're demonstrating this is that there's obviously a purple sort of background with some sort of different elements there now if we go into settings and we're going into the control panel you can see some of the new sort of personalization options so got color dragger here it's not too many colors to pick here but much has given you a few here so it's just going to the blue one will choose some bubbles here we go back to start now you can obviously change to change the bubbles there it's a look at some of the other sayings see what some other other colors can go all the way up to grey but I like gray and orange theme ok so we've also got the presence of Windows Media Center in this build and if we launch that up you can see that that it's pretty much the same as Windows 7 Matt everything might has done a lot of work to media center in windows 8 so it's largely untouched let's take a look at some of the other apps and going built the actual this isn't the actual consumer preview bill but the consumer preview build will obviously come with a lot of these sort of Metro storm applications but we can still have a look at like Metro desktop remote desktop here so you can connect to a Windows PC from there see what else we've gone yeah we got the store nearby lymph you can access at the moment we're not online so one of the one of the new gestures in windows 8 consumer preview is if we open up like I metro-style application like remote desktop we dragged down from the bottom now you can either snap this to the left Oh or you can literally take it down to the bottom and it will disappear select it closes the application but mark sourcils you've done a lot of work for background applications so it just runs in a suspended state in the background now if you switch to the desktop we can actually do the same for the actual desktop so it's almost like the desktop is running in an application and it will switch straight back into the Metro Start screen and we obviously got Windows Explorer you can you can sweat down on the ribbon there to get some sort of touch friendly navigation and a lot of the sort of file navigation will probably be done in the actual Metro interface where you beg to sort share we can't we can't shake so not in a nap stratification it's just yeah be aware to share data with other applications using the windows 8 contracts obviously the normal gestures of swiping applications interview still work so we can swipe Metro apps onto the main window there or into the left here so that's replacing the desktop you can continue swiping through and this is obviously you can resize this and you can also obviously dragged away and then get back to the start screen okay so we're going to have a look at the windows explorer in the Metro interface so one way to surface this is in the control panel metro-style version so if we browse here we can get into the different so we go into computer and we can browse the various folders there so obviously that's a bit more touch running friendly and using the actual Windows Explorer which are much less as long as obviously supplied for legacy reasons we can obviously change the desktop backgrounds here it's a few inbuilt ones i think the consumer preview the full consumer preview will have like the beta fish from windows 7 and a few other sort for pictures okay so we're just going to have a look at the actual keyboard on Windows 8 it seems like it's largely untouched from me actual Developer Preview and we will see got pennsport we don't have a pen here but it does seem to pick up and was quite well so it should translate that and and you've obviously got a split keyboard as well so you can use that and you also go to start a keyboard the numbers and the smiley faces it's quite a few of those longer okay so there's an interesting option on the sort pending space here we can have a correct interface and we'll just try that now see if it cracks under me hey guys and let's try joining so sorry joining those those letters into a word and let's try splitting something special so that works quite like I don't see deleting you can just swipe to delete ok so that was a quick look an early version of the windows 8 consumer preview build