Microsoft Windows 8 is the first Windows operating system to focus on touchscreen applications and features major changes in the user interface compared to its predecessors.
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Windows 8 was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012, and available to the public on October 26, 2012.
Windows 8 was preceded by Windows 7 and succeeded by Windows 10.
There are four editions of Windows 8 available: