Tablet users can swipe their way around the Start screen and Windows 8 apps with their touch-sensitive displays, but PC users face unprecedented challenges with this upgrade. The actual input devices you use with Windows 8 matter, too, much more so than with any previous Windows switchover. Many of the new commands and features in Windows 8 are hidden or difficult to find, so it’s easy to get lost trying to figure out where and how to perform specific tasks. Managing and customising Windows is a different ballgame in version 8, as well. Our take? Windows 8 should really be called "Windows 4+4," because it bridges – and forces you to contend with – two very different worlds: The familiar Windows desktop world, and a new (Metro) Windows apps world. The familiar Windows desktop is still around, and it works much the same as it always did (minus, as has been mourned for months, the old-style Start menu).īut the new Start screen and tiled interface present wholly new ways of organising and launching your applications and files – as well as a whole new way to think about Windows. It poses challenges for those of us used to the relative comforts of Windows 7 and XP. To be sure, whatever you think of it, Windows 8 is undeniably… different. But there’s more – far, far more! – to the new OS beneath the surface that's unlike any Windows you've used before.
If so, you've probably worked your way through Windows' few basic tutorials, and you know the rudiments of Windows 8's “new normal,” such as how to mouse/swipe around the all-new Start screen or expose the essential Charm bar. Or maybe you’ve just updated your existing laptop or desktop. Maybe you’ve just started running Windows 8 on a brand-spanking-new PC and have been poking around inside it.
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