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New :: What is New About Windows 8

Several innovations were borrowed from Windows Phone 7.x as well as improvements over Windows 7:

Here is a narrated tour from power-up.

1. Microsoft manufacturing tablets
2. 2 Seconds to Start Screen
3. That Start screen with flat square boxes
4. Press PgDn and PgUp to go sideways
5. Controlling touch screen with gestures as well as keyboard and mouse
6. Apps, not Programs with Windows RT OS
7. Windows App Store
8. You no longer have to press Start to Stop Windows ;)
9. Programs (Apps) Can Be Killed by the OS (versus just freezing to death ;)
10. More asynchronous
11. Connected Standby is a new mode of operation
12. Contracts to exchange information

On This Page - Windows 8

Here is the hierarchy of Groups, Sub-groups, and Detail pages related to Windows 8.

Group 0 :: Index

• Topic Groups Index {icon: List}
• Why This App?
• New : What is New
• Where This Fits In
• Events and Release History
• Rock Stars : Blogs
• Forums and Newsgroups
• Videos
• Books
• Privacy Policy : Your rights and my rights
• Ad
• Additional Links
• ad for Training people
Group 1 :: OS Setup
• Cert logo: 70-687 Configuring Windows 8
• Microsoft Surface Hardware
• OEM Windows 8 Devices
• Dual Booting Options
• Bluestacks Android
• VHD (Virtual HD)
• Hard Disk Encryption
• Anti-Virus
• Drivers : Hardware Support
• Updates
• ad for Administrators
Group 2 :: OS User Experience
• Landing/Splash Screen
• App Login Screen
• Start Screen
• Sleep
• Desktop Shortcut
• Desktop Quick Launcher
• Metro UI Design
• Metro on Windows 7
• Classic Shell
• Charms
• Printing
• App Settings Flyout
• Touch or Mouse or Keyboard
• Power User Menu (Winkey X)
• Colors of Default App Icons
• App Bar
• Page Navigation
• Screens
• Fonts
• Task Bar
• ad for End-Users
Group :: User Apps
• Default Apps : Colors
• Windows 8 Apps Store
• Office 2013
• Enterprise Apps
• Music Players
• Video Players
• Mail
• ad
Group :: New Project Setup
1. Dev Tools Fragmentation
2. Visual Studio 2012 Operation
3. Visual Studio 2012 create project
4. Internationlization
5. Languages
6. Localization Mark-up
7. Localization Testing
8. Error handling. design the app so that errors and exceptions never reach the user; handle device capability errors; handle promises errors
9. Test strategy. design a functional test plan; implement a coded UI test; design a reliability test plan, including performance testing, stress testing, scalability testing, and duration testing
10. Design a diagnostics and monitoring strategy. design profiling, tracing, performance counters, audit trails (events and information), and usage reporting; decide where to log events (local vs. centralized reporting)
11. ad
Group :: App Coding Basics
• Sample Windows 8 Apps
• Project Properties
• HTML5 Basics
• Code Basics
• Debugging Runs
• Logging
• Process Lifecycle
• Activation
• Background Tasks
• WinMD CLI metadata
• ad
Group :: UI Layout
1. Wireframes of Metro
2. User Name & Picture - Contacts
3. Layout CSS
4. Footer
5. Hash Images
6. View States
7. Snap View
8. CSS for Detail Layout
Group :: Text Effects
1. Navigation
2. Animations
Group :: UI Controls
1. Switching Groups
2. App Preferences
3. App Search Contract
4. Image Scaling
5. Image Frames
6. App Bar Integration
7. GUI Controls
8. Custom Controls
9. Animations
10. Sounds
11. Pictures
12. Movies
13. Flip View
14. Code Generation
Group :: Data Caching
1. Session Data Storage
2. Local File Storage
3. Data Encryption / Decryption
4. Database
Group :: Device Hardware Controls
1. Camera
2. Media Play
3. Sensor Enumeration
4. SD Cards
5. Orientation Sensor
6. GPS and Geolocation
7. Wi-Fi
8. Acceleromenter
9. Near Field Communication
Group :: Web Services
1. Web Authentication
2. Asynchronous Operations
3. MS Live Connect SDK
4. OAuth2 Authentication
5. OData Authentication
6. Pop-up Dialog
7. Toast Notifications
8. Push Notifications
9. JSON Web Services
10. XML SOAP Web Services
Group 12 :: Deployment
• Testing
• App Certification
• Crash Reports
• Analytics

Why This App?

This app was created as I struggled through hundreds of articles on this topic.

I've saved actual information and am not repeating high-level marketing generalizations and obvious statements that have no real value.

Much information wrong, obsolete, or irrelevant. A lot of so-called pundits use imflamatory titles in articles to get more readers. But the "success" of Windows 8 for Microsoft is different than for those who work with it.

Whether 500 million PCs will upgrade to Windows 8 is a mute point for individual technologists because learning an operating system for one unit is about the same as for many more. To me, there is no question that enterprises will adopt Windows 8, if only to preserve their investment in Office documents.

Every sentence here was hand-crafted to be clear and susinct. No pasting from other sites.

Rather than a list of videos, here resources are listed within the context of specific topics.

Events Timeline and Release History

• Feb. 2013 Windows 8 Pro Surface release
• Oct. 30 - Nov. 2, 2012 Redmond, Washington Microsoft //build 2012 conference
• Oct. 26, 2012 targeted official release press fanfare.
• Sep. 02, 2012 Windows 8 goes RTM
• Windows 8 RP (Release Preview) and matching matching Visual Studio 2012 RC (Release Candidate)
• Sep. 13 - 16, 2011 Anaheim, CA Microsoft //build 2011 conference attendees each got a Surface tablet.
• July 16, 2012 Office 13 Customer Preview announced in San Fran. by Steve Ballmer
• Feb. 29 2012 Consumer Preview availability announced in Barcelona.
• Sep. 11 2011 Developer Preview available.
• Windows 8 codenamed Midori during internal development.

ForumsWindows8

Rock Stars : Those who share and help

Andy Wigley from Wales,

Rob Tiffany

Building Windows 8 Blog by the Microsoft Windows engineering team

Windows 8 app developer blog by the Windows 8 engineering team for Insights on building Metro style apps for Windows 8

Forum: Windows Store Apps

Shai Raiten from Israel is a specialist in MS Team System. Prolific on CodeProject and YouTube.

• Windows 8 JavaScript Metro Application–Getting Started

Dan Whalin

Tim Hauer wrote on Callisto

Jeff Barnes

Creating JavaScript/HTML5 Windows 8 Applications

Content Absorbed Here

On this page I've summarized and synthesized content from these web pages:

• WIKIPEDIA: Windows_8
• Downloads (Windows 8 RTM, Visual Studio 2012 for Windows 8, Design Assets, Sample app pack, Remote Tools, Multilingual App Toolkit, App Certification Kit, Live SDK, Ads SDK)
• windowsuserexperiencetraining.com presenting Windows 8 UX videos. #windows8ux Presenters used presentation materials from
  Designing UX for apps web page.
• generationapp.com sends you an email each day for 30-days, each describing a step toward a
• Win8Appsuccess blog by Chris Bowen, Principal Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Windows 8

Additional Links

• Dev Center
• Ryan
• codefoster.com blog on horizontal panning jsRender
• Agencies who create apps include
  cynergy.com
• Designing UX for apps at design.windows.com
• Bing Maps using Bing Maps SDK for Metro style JavaScript apps (RTM Beta) based on Bing Maps AJAX Control 7.0.
• How to cook a complete Windows 8 application with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript in a week by David Catuhe
Tim Heuer at microsoft works on localization

How to enable Windows 8 Safe Mode

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