Microsoft has allowed anyone and everyone to get the 'feel' of what it says is going to revolutionize the OS market, their new Operating system Windows 8.
From what one can see in the promotional video, this is a big change to the Windows operating system and this change is being seen as a make or break move for Microsoft,
The new operating system is designed to run on  PCs, Laptops as well as Tablets since Windows has somewhat lacked behind the fast growing tablet and handheld devices industry in the past decade.
No specific release date has been announced yet, but it is highly expected to be available in autumn. Newspapers speculate that Microsoft is also planning to launch Microsoft Office App for free, which is likely to dominate the app market helping Microsoft in taking a leap ahead of its competitors.
Windows 8 trial is available on Microsoft's Website. However, you need an e-mail address and a first world country to download and use it, because unfortunately it has not been allowed for trial in Pakistan yet.
The trial was announced on 29th of February, which was also the leap day this year.
Following are 5 noticeable upgrades in windows 8:
1-Â Â Â Â New internet explorer version 10
2-Â Â Â Â Semantic zoom will help users in organizing all their apps a snap.
3-Â Â Â Â New application bar
4-Â Â Â Â Application management and switching in which users can swap between running applications
5-Â Â Â Â Â Charms, which will allow the users to search, access settings, share data with other apps, and more.
The new version of Microsoft's operating system is a radical departure, designed around touch screens. The operating system's home screen is filled with big, touchable panels. Microsoft says that they have created a new kind of app for Windows 8 using HTML5 and Java script, and they're a lot like the apps you'd expect to find on a tablet. A weather app shows the five-day forecast. A newsreader displays stories and thumbnail images in big, rectangular panels.
"It's beautiful, it's modern, it's fast, it's fluid," said Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows division.
