This year, millions of beginner-to-intermediate-level PC users will be searching for the easiest possible way to master their new Windows 8 computers - and, with Easy Computer Basics, Windows 8 Edition, they'll find exactly what they're looking for. This full-color, utterly simple, step-by-step book has been carefully crafted to provide instant access to the tasks they every novice or casual computer user needs to master. Like all books in the Easy series, it's designed to teach visually: readers never have to work their way through lengthy text explanations. The latest edition of Easy Computer Basics, Windows 8 Editionis updated with coverage of Windows 8, which introduces the totally new Metro user interface. Given Metro's genesis as a mobile interface, and Microsoft's push towards a new breed of touchscreen computing devices, this new edition will include more hardware coverage than previous editions. In addition, this book will cover Windows 8's new Metro interface in depth, as well as feature increased coverage of social networking and cloud computing applications.