Windows 8 introduced significant changes compared to Windows 7, including replacing the Start menu with a Start screen, making the Windows key essential for navigating between the modern and desktop interfaces, and removing the classic desktop view. Other changes were adding ribbons to Windows Explorer like in Microsoft Office, including a Windows Store for apps, introducing touch-friendly navigation gestures, reducing startup and shutdown times, and optimizing performance. While the changes made Windows 8 take some adjustment, it offered improvements in usability and speed over Windows 7.

1. COMPARISON BETWEEN WINDOWS
7 AND WINDOWS 8
Darío Torres

2. INTRODUCTION
• I did this work with the idea that you can see what's new in
running Windows 8 and the differences with its predecessor
Windows 7.
The launch of Windows 8 is special because not remember
many changes from one version of Windows over the previous
since the advent of Windows 95 that was very different
compared to Windows 3.1 18 years ago.

3. 1· A BIG DIFFERENCE:
• The Start menu is now the Start screen.
This system consists of icons of applications that can be
grouped into folders or windows and when you click on them,
they run.
The Windows 8 Start screen.

4. 2· THE WINDOWS KEY:
The key with the Windows logo that was previously only used to activate the Start menu, it
is now essential to navigate between the different screens of Windows 8 with the keyboard.
In Windows 8 this key serves to switch between the modern and the traditional interface.

5. 3· THE OLD DESKTOP IS DEAD:
• With the addition of the Start screen, the old Windows desktop is gone. To
view the desktop with its classic appearance must first pass through the new
interface and enable traditional interface.

6. 4· TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER IS NOT SO
SIMPLE NOW:
Before with Windows 7 turn off the computer
was so easy as going to the toolbar, click Start
and select Shut down.
• To turn off the computer now with Windows 8 must move the cursor (or slide
your finger) to the right corner of the screen where there are the
"charms", you just have to click on "settings" and then "power".

7. 5· RIBBONS IN WINDOWS 8:
• The ribbons of Microsoft Office 2007 are now used in the Windows 8 Explorer. Is a
graphical interface composed of a band at the top of the window which shows the
functions that Explorer can make and is a fairly simple way to use the file manager
functions.

8. 6· WINDOWS STORE:
Windows was the only operating system without application store until it appeared Windows
Store for Windows 8.

9. 7· THE MOVEMENTS IN TOUCHSCREENS:
• The hidden menu system or “charm” appears from the right side while on the left we see
the last application open as a window with the option to attach it to the side for divide the
workspace.
The options menu appears when you slide your finger on the upper side of the screen, if
you keep sliding your finger down to the bottom closes the open application.

10. 8· THE START TIME HAS BEEN REDUCED:
• Windows 8 may be initiated at 7 or 8 seconds so you no longer have time to press the
button to enter the BIOS menu, because the kernel is left in hibernation mode .
Windows 8 is 55% faster than Windows 7.
The shutdown system of Windows 8 is four times faster
than that Windows 7.

11. CONCLUTION
• Although a system with too revolutionary changes and that at first seems a bit
strange, Windows 8 has a big power when compared with its predecessor Windows
7 and certainly others will eventually gaining operating systems as happened with
Windows 7 when it appeared.