Microsoft has demonstrated their upcoming operating system (OS) called Windows 8. Watch the demo below.

The first live demo of Windows 8 was conducted by Windows President Steven Sinofsky at the D9 conference in southern California.

It looks like a Windows 7 powered phone.“What we tried to do with Windows 8 was reimagine what we want to do with a PC… We colored outside the lines,”Sinofsky said.

The upcoming OS will feature a lot of applications – apps. The start menu has a series of boxes with its own features.“Everything that runs on Windows 7, every peripheral, will run on this,” he said.

There’s no exact launch date but the earliest it could get is around 2012.