using a touch screen. So if you choose a
websites) across all your systems, entirely
picture of your house, say, you might
automatically.
draw an outline around the roof, then tap
on a window and the front door. Windows
6. Spot resource hogs:
will remember your gestures, and won't
All this syncing, email-checking, RSS
allow anyone to log in later unless they
monitoring and so on could become a little
can repeat them. If that doesn't sound
expensive if you're using a metered 3G
appealing, you can continue to log in with
connection, of course. So it's just as well
a regular alphanumeric password if you
that the new Windows 8 Task Manager
prefer, just as before.
includes an App History feature which can
show you exactly who's hogging all your
4. Enjoy a dynamic desktop:
network bandwidth (as well as your CPU
The Windows 8 Metro interface doesn't