Windows 8 is focused on your life—your friends and family, your apps, and your stuff. With new things like the Start screen, charms, and a Microsoft account, you can spend less time searching and more time doing. And then there's the Windows Store, a completely new marketplace for apps. Windows already comes with some apps, but you can get many more in the Store. There's also a new web browser that's faster, safer, and more intuitive: Internet Explorer 10.

With Windows, your life is connected.

Your next PC will do more and go further, no matter which one you choose. The latest tablets are lightweight and blazing fast, with extended battery life for greater mobility. Convertibles give you the style and mobility of a tablet and can also be snapped onto a keyboard and turned into a full-powered laptop. And our all-in-ones provide a new level of power and style in a desktop PC.

Windows 8 can keep you connected to your friends, family, and peers by bringing them all together in a single contact list. Keep up with the latest photos, updates, and Tweets, and share your thoughts or photos with anyone you like—without signing in to multiple websites.

With Windows, you can stay in touch with the people who matter most to you.

Discover a variety of great apps for Windows 8 in the Windows Store. Check out the featured apps, or tap or click a category name to browse all of the apps in the category. You can also view apps listed in groups like Top free and New releases.

Some apps, like People, Mail, and Calendar, are built in to Windows 8, they're already on your Start screen when you sign in to your PC.

With Windows, you can get great apps from the Windows Store.

Windows 8 might look like something new. That's because it is. Pin apps to your homepage, use touch screen devices even download and share everything you see across all your devices.

The desktop hasn't gone though. It is just under the icon. Waiting for you for when you need it.

Music to your ears

Music is the soundtrack of our lives. With Windows 8, you can play your current collection, choose from millions of streaming songs and albums, or add to your music library—all with the Music app. And when you're not sure what you want to listen to, the Music app can help you create custom playlists based on your favorites.

With Windows, you're the DJ.

Internet Explorer 10 is fast and fluid. Everything you want to do on the web is a swipe or a tap away, and feels instant. Browser tabs and navigation controls appear only when you need them and quietly get out of the way when you don't.

With Internet Explorer 10, you can quickly switch between tabs and access your favorite sites.

Getting from A to B just got a whole lot easier. Maybe you want to go to C and maybe you need to avoid the traffic. All this can be done using our new Maps App with live traffic integration so you can get around easier.

You can look out the window and see that it is raining or you can look into Window 8 and find out it has been raining for 4 hours, it will stop raining after lunch and it will be a beautiful day tomorrow!

This Weather App and many more are available in the Windows store.

Sign in to Windows 8 with a Microsoft account and see all your photos—whether they're on Facebook, Flickr, SkyDrive, or on your PC—with the Photos app. Make your photos look their best with photo editing apps from the Windows Store or with Photo Gallery. And once they look the way you want, you can share with your friends in just a few steps.

With Windows, your photos are always with you.

Windows 8 has loads of apps to help you stay connected to your friends and followers.

Helping you stay social, its #Windows8

Windows has never looked like this before. Stay up to date with the world with live news feeds direct to your desktop from well-respected news agencies.

Whether you love football or you're crazy about rugby you can stay up to date with all the latest scores and results direct to your Windows 8 device via one of the great sports apps available in our online store.

All the sporting results direct to your desktop.