The Windows 8 tablet teasers hold rolling in, first with Microsoft depicting a brief glimpse of a quad-core slate, and now with two former images of Windows 8 tablet applications. ZDNet's Stephen Chapman disclosed single of the intentions, for a USA Today app, on the Web link of designer Robbie Dillon. "In formulation for the Windows 8 release, this app is being built to take benefits of the touch-first, native environment of Windows 8, as retaining the look and feel of the Windows Metro UI and demonstrating the message of USA Today," Dillon wrote.

After the design commenced disseminating via the blogosphere, Dillon wrote a disclaimer: "this is easy an former plan exploration and doesn't excogitate the last product." The second uncovering by Chapman is a bit more puzzling. A smatter of screenshots view what appear like a travel-oriented application that also adds news, media and messaging. The design was created by Jetsoft, a company that assists design user port for other app developers.

Neither of these Windows 8 application designs may turn into completed products, but they do give a sense of how Microsoft's "Metro" user port will go a part of Windows apps. Like Chapman, I'm not in love with these special designs, but I dig the Metro style and I'm concerned in few of the characteristics Microsoft is promising for Windows 8 tablets, like the ability to run 2 apps side-by-side on the similar screen. We may view few real Windows 8 apps in action next month at Microsoft's BUILD conference, when the company is expected to describe its next operating system in greater detail.