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Some of the new features for Windows 8

A lot of people have voiced their concerns over Microsoft's use of "touch-based" UI with Windows 8. In an attempt to gauge how the "average" desktop user will engage and react to Windows 8's Metro design, lockergnome had his dad sit down and use Windows 8 without any previous instruction.

Quicktip - Enabling godmode in Windows 8. Useful if you mess around with your system settings a bunch.

HTML5, WebGL and Javascript have changed the way animation used to be. Past few years, we can only achieve extraordinary web animation by using Flash and Java Applet. It's possible to create insane effects and crazy animations with scripting and render it on the browser.

Just some more examples of awesome WebGL animations.

create shapes in pure CSS

CSS to make a number of different shapes, including speech bubbles, stars/badges, and many standard shapes. NOTE: Some of these fail in IE7 and 8.

Windows 8 was released... and it has a much more friendly looking Blue Screen of Death. It's cute and adorable... for some reason this speaks volumes to me about where Microsoft is heading and a new focus on user experience.

A bunch of jQuery sliders. Best examples: #1, #8, #16, #23

IE10 doesn't allow plug-ins in MetroIE (therefore meaning Flash cannot be installed).