By: Nathan Eddy eWeek
Microsoft launched the Windows 8 consumer preview—the next milestone of the Windows operating system, to the press at Mobile World Congress in a two-hour presentation in which Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows division, joined by other Microsoft executives, provided demonstrations of the touch interface and how the operating system functioned on a number of devices, including tablets, desktop PCs and notebooks, as well as next-generation Ultrabooks. The emphasis was on the “fast and fluid” nature of the interface, which uses the four corners of a notebook’s screen to go from an application back to the “start” screen (bottom left) zoom (bottom right) switch between multiple applications (top left) or sharing functions (top right). “With a mouse, you get a precise pointing device, but it is not great for gestures,” explained vice president of Windows Web services
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