Customization

Images from Win8China seem to confirm that in the latest beta version of Windows 8, users can choose the color of their start screen.

In the Developer Preview the only thing you could change was your PC name and the colors of the tiles, not the color of the start screen itself. So this is already a definite improvement on the Developer Preview and is starting to give us a better, working idea of what to expect from Windows 8.

Signing In By Drawing On Your Screen With Your Finger

This is the most amazing news I've yet had to report about concerning Windows 8. Currently, for most of us, our working day or even or down-time browsing begins with typing in a password. For those of us who use PCs at work, this means regularly changing your password and trying to desperately remember it every single day.

Good news for anyone who is a bit, well, fed-up with the green that currently is the Windows 8 Desktop; apparently the current green setting as standard is only temporary.

At the moment, as anyone who has downloaded the Developer Preview knows, whilst you can change the colours of the lock screen and customize the tiles, the background is unchangeable, it is always this solid block of green.

But according to a recently reported leak, this permanent green background is only a feature of the beta version of Windows 8, the version that is currently being trialled as the Developer Preview.