Two screenshots of Windows 8 shed light on the Windows Live ID integration in Windows 8. You cannot login into Windows 8 using Windows Live ID.
Microsoft wants to keep Windows on tablets so that they don’t need to invest in another platform.
The browser is now the desktop. Most of our daily computing activities can be done via the browser and traditional computing is undergoing a transition.
Windows 8 will support instant on by fast booting into application specific operating systems for media playback and other functions.
I speculate what Microsoft might be thinking of doing with Windows 8 based on the current rumors.
Direct Experience Platform for Windows will start the PC in reduced functionality mode to function more as a consumer device for specific purposes than as a full fledged PC.
As I said in the last post, Microsoft plans to use the Windows Phone 7 strategy for the tablet segment as well. For the tablets, Microsoft might define the hardware specifications like in the case of WP7. The leaked documents give us a rough idea of the requirements:
As a consumer I believe that companies should share with customers what their plans for the future are so that I can make an informed decision but that doesn’t happen unless some guy leaks a huge bunch of internal documents for us to feed on.
A few weeks back I had written about a patent that showed Microsoft’s intent to bring Kinect’s body sensing technology to Windows. Someone, somewhere leaked a few internal Windows team slides that made it to the Internet. Martin at Microsoft Journal was the first to write about the information.