Features new to Windows 8: Difference between revisions

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Windows 8 has a new developer platform according to Microsoft Vice President Julie Larson-Green, who called it "our new developer platform, which is...based on [[HTML5]] and [[JavaScript]]."<ref name="Why Microsoft has made developers horrified about coding for Windows 8">{{cite web

|url= http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/06/html5-centric-windows-8-leaves-microsoft-developers-horrified.ars |title= Why Microsoft has made developers horrified about coding for Windows 8 |author= Peter Bright |publisher= Arstechnica |date= 2011-06-13 |accessdate= 2011-06-28}} </ref>

The new applications developed for Windows 8 could be easily ported as a [[Metro (design language)]] style application and developers could use any existing Windows Application Development language to port applications as a Metro style app (by adding minimal amount of code). This is possible because of the architectural changes done to the Windows platform. All applications developed whether using [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]], [[Microsoft Foundation Class Library|MFC]] or HTML5/JavaScript will translate into WinRT (Windows RunTime) API's, which sits above the Windows Kernel directly. The new applications run in full-screen, but two of them can be displayed side-by-side using "Snap". Examples of new applications that were demoed include a [[Twitter]] client, a weather application, a stock-tracking application, an [[RSS]] news feeder, and a virtual piano.

== Shell and user interface ==