Windows 8
Windows 8 is the upcoming version of Microsoft Windows that follows Windows 7.[2] It features a new Metro-style interface that is designed for touchscreen, mouse, keyboard, and pen input. It also adds support for the ARM processor architecture in addition to the previously supported x86 microprocessors from Intel and AMD. Its server counterpart is codenamed Windows Server 8. A release date for the finished version of Windows 8 has not yet been announced. The most recent prerelease version is the Consumer Preview, which was released on February 29, 2012.
Early announcements
In January 2011, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft announced that Windows 8 would be adding support for ARM microprocessors in addition to the x86 microprocessors from Intel, AMD and VIA.
On June 1, 2011, Microsoft officially unveiled Windows 8 and some of its new features at the Taipei Computex 2011 in Taipei (Taiwan) by Mike Angiulo and at the D9 conference in California (United States) by Julie Larson-Green and Microsoft's Windows President Steven Sinofsky. The main feature that was shown was the new user interface.
On August 15, 2011, Microsoft opened a new blog called "Building Windows 8" for users and developers.
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Sneak Peek: Adobe Photoshop CS6 Content-Aware Move and Expand Tools
With Photoshop CS6 expected to drop this spring, Adobe started posting weekly sneak peeks of Photoshop CS6's new features. This week, Adobe Senior Product Manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes demonstrated the new Content-Aware Move and Expand features.
Both features expand on the Content-Aware Fill Tool that originally appeared in Photoshop CS5. Content-Aware Move lets you draw a selection around an object and move it to a new place in the picture. Extend lets you expand objects in your drawn selection by dragging them.
Sneak Peek: Adobe Photoshop CS6 Content-Aware Move and Expand Tools
[Photo: Adobe]With Photoshop CS6 expected to drop this spring, Adobe started posting weekly sneak peeks of Photoshop CS6's new features. This week, Adobe Senior Product Manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes demonstrated the new Content-Aware Move and Expand features.
Both features expand on the Content-Aware Fill Tool that originally appeared in Photoshop CS5. Content-Aware Move lets you draw a selection around an object and move it to a new place in the picture. Extend lets you expand objects in your drawn selection by dragging them.
Judging from the video, it works like magic, but that’s because the program’s algorithms handle all the deleting and aligning of objects, as well as the background fill. Hughes also shows off how you can use the Patch Tool to tell Content-Aware Fill where it should clone from. This may be useful in cases when you want to fill in a dead patch of grass and the algorithm decides pull textures from a nearby pond.
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