Windows 8 Has an 'Immersive' UI Browsing Mode
As we saw with the Windows 8 welcome screen, Microsoft is taking cues from its mobile OS Windows Phone 7 in the design of its next big desktop OS.
WinSuperSite now has some images showing a new Internet Explorer-powered UI mode that is being referred to as "Immersive." A big clue to what the Immersive UI will be like is Internet Explorer, which takes on a look that's much like the IE Mobile browser in Windows Phone.
The Internet Explorer Immersive mode in current builds is locked to a view that is at 640x480, indicating its not-yet-finished state. It's likely that this UI and browsing mode is meant for touch-based form factors, such as a tablet.
The browser software works, and has features such as browser history implemented and executed in ways very similar to Windows Phone 7.


And why would anyone need that on a desktop, except for people that are already using "Ease of Access"??????
lol just what everyone wants!!!!
i wonder if it will support copy/paste in the initial release, or just add the feature later like windows phone 7
I like having a lot of things in a OS to play with, Bring on particle effects and fancy 3D screensavers with lots of eyecandy and awesome animations for menus.
Computers have the power, now bring on the effects.
Linux has all that and more!
You mean how iOS is iPhone for tablets?
I've seen images almost ten times the dimensions with greater clarity to boot, and they were under 200 KB. Learn to use JPG. PNG's are just too large, and the quality difference is negligible.
Sorry about being off topic but someone had to say it.
Either all this stuff is for greater usability on a tablet or UMPC device, which is probably a good idea if they plan to get a bigger market share and actually make a splash in that area, or this is all just an April Fool's joke that hasn't died yet, or these are features of Windows Phone 8 and not Windows 8.
Although I suppose there could also soon be a Windows Tablet 8 just as there is a Windows Phone 7 right now.
Or apple IOS, its not like microsoft was the only one who did that......
I like where Microsoft is going, they are looking to the future and preparing relevant products!, remember, this will be running on ARM, come people what a choice, and don't worry, the Traditional Desktop will not suffer or get cut down, Microsoft are not looking to Move markets to Mobile, their Mainstay is the Desktop OS and Office products, followed by Server business products! They are looking at adding a scalable mobile OS for the massive emerging mobile market to get a piece of the action there, and if they don't get it right, they will decline in the OS department for sure!
and iOS (which took a lot longer)
Linux..ahh yes, the O/S where you'd be entering command lines just to call someone! yea, thats what we all need!
How were you able to post this comment from back in 1979? The Internet didn't even exist then.
No it will not affect the price of win7... Why would it? Win 7 didn't have any affect on winxp prices.
I am not sure of the release date, but it has been rumoured to come out late 2012 or early 2013. It seems to be more about cloud computing and mobile solution, so it is hard to say how much it will affect desktop installations.
Most propably win 8 should be better scaling alternative to win 7. Something from mobile solutions to desktop installations. If and when there will be allso ARM-compatible version of win8, it is interesting to see how Nvidia can come back to busines with their arm+gpu solutions vs intel cpu+gpu and Amd cpu+gpu that are based older PC architecture. It should increase competition at least!