00:06Hi everyone, my name is Jensen Harris and I'm Director of Program Management for the Windows User Experience Team.
00:13This is the first video in a series of videos we're going to be posting on our blog in the
00:17coming months
00:18that showcase cool stuff we've been working on for what we're codenaming Windows 8.
00:23We're here in our design room, which is one of the rooms where we have a lot of interesting discussions
00:29about the UI. If you look over here, you can see some of the stuff we have posted up on
00:33the wall to inspire us.
00:35Sometimes we put designs we're working on on the wall. Now we've been pretty quiet. There's a good reason for
00:40that.
00:40As you can imagine, the team has had many ideas. Many of them were good. Not all of them weren't.
00:47So we wanted to wait and really try to figure out what was going to make its way into the
00:51product.
00:52The first thing that you're going to see when you start a Windows 8 PC is the start screen.
00:58The start screen is this personal mosaic of tiles. Every app on your system is represented by a tile.
01:09Now tiles are better than icons for a couple of reasons. They have a little more space for the app
01:14to show its personality.
01:15Like the weather app can just show you the temperature without you having to open it.
01:20We introduced a new platform based on standard web technologies, so HTML5 and JavaScript, and it allows millions of developers
01:29who know how to use those technologies
01:31to create a new kind of app for Windows 8. These apps are full screen. They're beautiful. They are designed
01:40for touch.
01:41But of course they work great with mouse and keyboard as well, if that's what you have.
01:46We wanted to make it really fast and fluid to get between your running apps.
01:52You just take your thumb or your finger from the side and just swipe it in.
01:57As I do that, I run that through my list of running applications.
02:04One of the great things about a PC is that you can do two things at once.
02:09We created a feature called Snap.
02:11I swiped in my thumb from the side of the screen, but now instead of moving it all the way
02:17into the center,
02:17I'm going to pause for a second.
02:19You can snap it into place over here next to your main app.
02:23I can choose to change which app is big and which one is small.
02:28So with just one simple gesture, you can snap one app next to another app.
02:33Now a huge part of what you do on a PC today is web apps.
02:38Internet Explorer 10 has a touch-first UI for tanning the page very fluidly with the finger, for switching tabs.
02:45Here you can see the touch keyboard.
02:47One of the things that we realized, though, when we were using it, was that typing requires you to reach
02:53all the way into the middle of the screen.
02:56And so we designed this thumbs layout, which is sort of more ergonomic, and it feels really natural to use.
03:02Windows 8 also runs the existing Windows apps that you use and that you love.
03:07They're just as easy to switch to, and you can use them alongside your new Windows 8 apps.
03:15Because it's a PC, it has a file system.
03:18And that file system has your photos, it has your documents, it has your videos, it has your music.
03:24And you can get to these things not just from your existing Windows programs, but from these new Windows 8
03:31apps.
03:31They can get to just as seamlessly as you've always expected in Windows.
03:35You can also get to files and photos that you have on other connected Windows PCs on your local network.
03:42And we know that you don't just have your stuff on the local PC, you also have services that you
03:47care about.
03:48From Windows 8 apps, you can also pick files not just from the file system, but also from any other
03:54app installed on the system.
03:56We made it easy to get photos from one app to another app.
04:00This is the new version of Windows.
04:03It's going to run on laptops.
04:04It's going to run on desktops.
04:06It's going to run on PCs with mouse and keyboard.
04:09It's going to run on touch slates.
04:11It's going to run on everything.
04:12Hundreds of millions of Windows PCs powered by this new interface and new platform.
04:18This has just been a small taste of what we're going to be showing over the next year.
04:23And we are so happy to finally be able to share it with you.
04:30And we're so happy to share it with you.
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