Screenshots: Windows 8 Developer Preview

Summary: Windows 8's Metro user interface is a big departure from the traditional recipe of windows, icons, mouse and pointer. Our gallery shows how the Developer Preview is shaping up.

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Windows 8's Metro Start screen is the new Windows shell, relegating the old desktop to simply another application. Live Tiles show information, as well as launching applications.

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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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