Amazing Windows 8 Facts You Don't Know About

xactly one month earlier from today, on 26th of October, Microsoft launched its much anticipated, modern, innovative & feature rich operating system i.e. Windows 8. And, with the launch, Microsoft's head of Windows, Steven Sinofsky, describes Windows 8 as “a major milestone in the evolution and revolution of computing” & saying it the best Windows release ever.

He also called Friday 26 October 2012 as the first day of "the world of Windows 8". And, Windows 8 also gaining a huge popularity among the consumers and proving worth of the words said by Steven Sinofsky. So let's explore the things/facts that made Windows 8 an incredible OS.

Here are few but amazing Windows 8 facts you might not be aware of:

• Microsoft performed 1.2 Billion hours of testing before releasing the Windows 8.
• More than 1,000 new computing devices including ultrabooks & tablets have been certified by Microsoft for Windows 8, with some costing under $300.
• More than 1,500 new apps were added to the Windows 8 app store overnight on the launch day & buy now there are more than 10,000 apps in Windows 8 app store.
• Windows RT is the first OS to be compatible with PC's running ARM chips & will work with 420m computers.

• Windows 8 ultrabook computers run at least 33% faster than Windows 7.
• The in-depth design testing of Windows 8 was done by a team of 16 people of Europe's largest experience design specialist firm, Foolproof.
• Microsoft Windows 8 devices includes convertible PCs that double as both a tablet computer and an ultrabook.
• Xbox music that come with Windows 8 has 30 million songs that can be streamed online.
• Analysts have predicted 400m new PC sales for next year, most of which will run Windows 8.
• Windows 8 is the first ever version of Windows especially designed & optimized for touchscreen devices, Windows 7 and its predecessors were not made for touchscreens.
• Microsoft sold four million upgrade copies of Windows 8 over the first weekend of sales.
• Microsoft released Windows 8 in 109 languages, including 14 new display languages which has a potential reach of over 4.5 billion people.
• Microsoft unveiled the new Windows 8 features and improvements more than one year before tha launch on September 13, 2011.
• According to Microsoft, there were about 535,000 downloads of the Windows 8 developer preview within the first 12 hours of its release.
• For the first time since Windows 95, the Windows Start button is no longer present on the taskbar.
• Windows 8 Consumer Preview had been downloaded over one million times.
• Advertising budget for the Microsoft Windows 8 is US $1.5–1.8 billion, making it the industry's biggest product launch in history.
• Its been just one month and Microsoft had already released Windows 8's first security patches on 13th Nov, 12.
• Microsoft used eye tracking/behaviour, Individual fixations, or recordings of a stabilized retina while typing to build Windows 8 touch keyboard.

Two more things I noticed during the Windows 8 launch event are:

• Microsoft said at the event that Windows 7 has been installed 670m times, its huge.
• A research firm Gartner said that by the end of 2012 there will be 1.5bn Windows devices, and 608m on Android, still way behind.

Isn't that enough for now, I'll be exploring some more interesting things about Windows 8 in coming days, till then why don't you know how popular has been Windows 8 till now.

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