What’s New in Windows 8?

In the previous sections we mentioned that Windows 8 is unlike any previous version of Windows. The departure is in some ways more radical than the one from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95, when the Start button and taskbar first appeared. In the following sections we’ll review the ways that Windows 8 differs from its predecessors both on the screen and under the covers.

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