This is the Windows 8 Welcome and Lock Screen
Windows Phone 7 influence.
Even if you're not looking at it with Apple products in mind, there is a clear convergence happening between smartphones, tablets and the traditional desktop and laptop form factor.
Just like how Apple is integrating iOS elements into Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Microsoft seems to be borrowing bits of Windows Phone 7 for Windows 8.
Uncovered on Within Windows is what is tentatively the welcome screen for Windows 8. See it below:
The background image is one of the pieces of artwork included in Windows 7. The actual image is changeable, but what is said to be set is the time, date, power controls and ease of access. There's also talk of being able to control music playback from the lock screen, which would be handy for when a PC is used as the music player at a party.
Different variations of Windows 8 may have different welcome screens. For example, tablet devices may have pattern-based unlocking instead of ctrl-alt-delete.
Discuss more about this and other Windows 8 features here!
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proofhitter Is this a joke? I don't want my desktop to look like a phone... Looks ugly to me. I'd rather stick to my Win7 welcome screen thank you very much!Reply -
joytech22 Two things:Reply
1. The face of that man is disturbing
2. I don't want a phone experience on my Desktop, I want it to feel as fast and expensive as it is, add lots of particle effects for the time or something..
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delazaren Relax guys, the image is changeable and what's wrong with adding a few extra bits on the welcome screen like date and time? Your uber CPU and uber GPU won't sweat over it. I assume of course that we'll be able to get the standard login prompt though... :-)Reply -
amigafan I don't want to have to press ctrl-alt-delete to log on. I want to be able to quickly type my password and hit enter to log on like I do now.Reply -
FlukieLukie amigafanI don't want to have to press ctrl-alt-delete to log on. I want to be able to quickly type my password and hit enter to log on like I do now.Erm.. In every version of Windows the home/login screen has a mode to force CTRL+ALT+DEL logins, the password + profile will still be there too just this option will stay as it always has been :SReply -
mlopinto2k1 Retarded. That's all I have to say about that. Oh, and.. I like the "lots of particle effects" idea.Reply