In the Windows operating system will include 9 Notification Center and Disaster Recovery feature of the operating system from the cloud storage. In addition, the live tiles in the OS will be interactive. It is reported by The Verge on Wednesday, citing sources at Microsoft.
One of the innovations of Windows 9 will be interactive tiles. They extend to the touch and show your content directly on the home screen, it is not necessary to run their own applications. For example, if you activate so email, tile automatically displays a list of incoming messages. In this list, you can scroll and to open it you need a letter, not the inbox. Most of the applications included in the base Windows 9, are expected to support this feature. Third-party developers will have to make changes to their application.
Moreover, Windows 9 also appears notification center. Its capabilities will partially overlap with the functions of the center of notifications in a mobile platform Windows Phone 8.1.
With regard to the recovery function of the cloud, the image of the user's system is likely to be stored by Microsoft, and, if necessary, the owner of the computer or tablet will be able to restore it. This comes in handy if the system goes incorrigible failure, which led to partial or complete failure of Windows. Currently, Microsoft has engaged in the creation of cloud storage for such purposes.
In addition, Microsoft intends to actively encourage users to switch to Windows 9. For this purpose, the "specials" to owners of Windows 7, and those who have purchased a computer or tablet with "eight", will be able to take advantage of some coupon for $ 20.
The new OS can also get a new feature for the Microsoft platform - the virtual desktops. It allows you to create multiple home screens, placing them more labels and grouping them thematically. The ability to create multiple desktops have long enjoyed the owners of computers running Mac OS X.
Earlier media also has information that Windows 9 will provide users with an updated version of Metro UI 2, which will also be different button "Start" to be removed is currently functional.In addition, the software platform will get a new activation method, which will be implemented at a time when the user logs in to the online resource Microsoft Store. In this case, it will not be given a product key itself, as was done previously.
Full version of Windows 9, is expected to become available to everyone in April 2015 and a preview will be released September 30th.