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Neowin.net posted two new Windows 8 news stories



Additional Windows 8 UI and under-the-hood changes revealed
The dissection of system files in the leaked Windows 8 M1 build continues, as enthusiasts uncover more planned changes to Windows 8 that have not been covered already in the days surrounding the build's leak. At the beginning of this week, Windows 8 Italia began digging into system bits and revealed hidden references to the cloud integration Microsoft is promising for Windows 8. The changes were discovered by differentiating the function calls in system DLLs with presumably those from current shipping versions in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. Today's installment from Windows 8 Italia reveals a few UI-related details, and some under-the-hood system changes.
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Windows 8 pattern login shown off on video
Windows 8 will bring to the table many new features and among those will be a new login with pattern recognition. The feature, which looks very similar to the one currently used on the Android platform, has more combinations than what the Android pattern unlock currently utilizes.

The video comes courtesy of YouTube (via Compixels.com) and it is believed that this type of login interface will be reserved for the touch based UI of Windows 8.
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