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Windows Developer Preview Apps

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Stocks Windows Developer Build

Stocks

A new stocks app. Looks pretty nice with good graphs. No ASX stocks available yet though

Windows Developer Build Windows Explorer

Windows Developer Build Windows Explorer

The new windows explorer is only available in the desktop mode. It does have the ribbon interface which isn't too bad but it should be better integrated

Windows Developer Build App Store

Windows Developer Build App Store

The marketplace is full of apps as you can see!

Windows Developer Build Connect 5

Connect 5 game

A kind of boring connect 5 game

Windows Developer Build Paint

Windows Developer Build Paint

I'm not actually sure whether this is the official pain app but it looks pretty good

Windows Developer Build Podcasts

Windows Developer Build Podcasts

A new podcast app integrated into the OS. The interface is good with podcasts able to be sorted into groups. It is similar to Windows Media Centre

Internet Explorer 10

Internet Explorer 10

A new version of Internet explorer. It opens websites full screen with the address bar at the bottom and tabs at the top. These pop up when you hover near them. Not so sure about the address bar at the bottom though. It seems a bit strange and unintuitive

Measure app

Measure

Kind of like the measuring app on iOS where you take a photo, set a scale and can semi-accurately measure objects as king as you have no need for depth measurements

Windows Developer Build search menu

Search menu

A nice layout for the new search menu

Piano app splashscreen

Piano app splashscreen

Here is an example of the app full screen splash screens

Piano app

Piano app

A nice piano app for touch screens, not so for mice and keyboards

RSS reader

RSS reader

An RSS reader with a similar layout to the podcast app

RSS reader

RSS reader gesture

If you look on the left side of the screen you can see a pop up of another app. You can just drag another open app from the left side of the screen and bring it up as full screen. Supposedly there's a way of making them split a screen but I haven't figured it out yet

Here is a quick overview of some of the apps included in the developer build of Windows. Most have pretty good concepts but need a bit more work to make them useful. Overall, it gives you an idea of how the OS works and the power of the system.

More pictures will come soon as I discover new features

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Posted by khanbm

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  1. some look promising, can’t wait to try windows 8 out. How are you finding it so far?

  2. The new interface is awesome, it’s a bit buggy though


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