Microsoft’s early Windows 8 concepts shown in new video

It's been nearly 10 years since Windows 8 launched to the world as part of Microsoft's big tablet push. While we've seen two heads of Windows since then, former Windows chief Steven Sinofsky has shared some early concept images for Windows 8 in a new video. The images show concepts for the Start menu, multiple monitor support, File Explorer, Internet Explorer, and lots more.

Windows 8 development began in the spring of 2010, and Microsoft held an all-team event for the Windows org (around 5,000 people) at the Seattle Convention Center. This video was played as the meeting ended and the team departed the Seattle Convention Center," explains Sinofsky. It is a highlight or sizzle reel of the many months we spent planning the release and all of the inputs into the Windows 8 project."

Windows 8 would've been a fascinating, innovative, fresh, and incredibly interesting operating system and graphical user interface if it hadn't been Windows 8. Microsoft should've split Windows into something like Windows" and Windows Classic" over a decade ago. Let the two sides of the coin shine where they should, instead of trying to cram every single Windows interface from 3.1 onward into a single mess.