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Topic: Operating Systems

Screenshots: Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Summary: The Consumer Preview is very close to the final Windows 8 user experience, with new touch gestures and improved support for mouse and keyboard. Our extensive gallery explores the look and feel of Windows' latest incarnation.

Simon Bisson

By Simon Bisson |

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The Windows 7 beta's mascot, the Betta Fish, finds its way to Windows 8 — though this time as a bubble-blowing Metro-styled cartoon avatar.

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Topics: Operating Systems, Reviews, Software

Simon Bisson

About Simon Bisson

Simon Bisson is a freelance technology journalist. He specialises in architecture and enterprise IT. He ran one of the UK's first national ISPs and moved to writing around the time of the collapse of the first dotcom boom. He still writes code.

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