A Gaze in The Future by The New Windows 8
There is a relation between the reelection of Barack Obama as a President of the USA and the meeting of our university with Microsoft – Bulgaria and it is the fact that both events of the day are related to the future. Thus the guests of the meeting titled Windows 8, Where Does the Future Lead were met by Assoc. Prof. Jordan Bliznakov, Director of the Inter-University Center for Career Development – organizer of the event. A team of young specialists from Microsoft – Bulgaria showed to students the last novelties about the entering of the new version of the world recognized software.
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| Assoc. Prof. Bliznakov (on the right) and the lecturers |
Raya Yunakova, representative of the Microsoft – Bulgaria managing body pointed out that at the UNWE there have already been three students partners of the company. Krasimir Krastev showed the attendants the new product navigation beginning with the menu – more convenient with new possibilities for horizontal movement and an option for diminishing and enlarging the icons. The new Windows 8 provides a new user interface, a store for applications (Microsoft Store), as well as interesting new functions. The system is suited for easy use - as well as by a touch as also by a mouse and keyboard, it starts much faster than its predecessors and takes up less memory on the computer.
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| The Microsoft lecturers team |
Diyan Milanov spoke about the metroapplications containing a lot of space with eliminated frames. Windows 8 offers even an online store which is the only place the new version can be bought now. It supports more than 150 market places and leaves up to 80 per cent of the profit to the originator of the application. The team told the students also about the initiative Imagine Cup – a creative way to be learnt anything new about computers and creation of applications.
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| The future users of the new software |
The most wanted thing in the race is the idea and not so much computer skills, assured the audience Lazar who participated in a competition in London in 2011. The competition in 2013 will be held in Saint Petersburg and anyone who wants to make any application as game, innovation or application may be included with a team of four people. On December, 20th, 2012 ends the first stage of the competition when the teams must describe and defend their idea.
