The buzz is building over Microsoft's BUILD conference that starts Tuesday, where the company will provide more details about Windows 8, which the company bills as the most radical change in its OS since Windows 95. "In 1995, Windows changed the PC," Microsoft says. "BUILD will show you that Windows 8 change everything." But what everyone's wondering is whether Windows 8 will change everything for better or worse?
Microsoft is building its next OS to run consistently on multiple device platforms, including desktop PCs, laptops, netbooks, convertible laptops, and tablets. As part of this rethinking of Windows, the next version of the OS will have a touch-centric start screen that houses apps in live tiles similar to the Metro UI in Windows Phone 7. This touch-centric approach has traditional Windows users worried that the new OS won't meet their expectations, but Microsoft says your regular old Windows desktop is just one click (or tap) away.
