Microsoft gives sneak preview of Windows 8...

Microsoft had given a sneak preview of the successor to Windows 7, a next-generation operating system designed to work on both personal computers and touchscreen tablets.

Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows Division, demonstrated some of the features of the operating system code-named "Windows 8" at the D9 technology conference in California hosted by All Things Digital.

"Laptops, slates, desktops - all can run one operating system," Sinofsky said.
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"Things that people see work... on an iPad, I think we can do that and then bring with it all of the benefits that you have with Windows," he said. More...

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