


It also provides battery information, that is of course, if you are using a portable PC. The Lock screen is your first experience getting into the new Windows 8 user-interface (or UI for short), it offers quite useful information: time and date, weather, email, and, if configured, other apps with real-time statuses as well. This new way to sign-in is by far more functional than anything you might have seen in previous versions of Windows and even in other operating systems. The first time you boot into Windows 8 you’ll be introduced to the new Lock screen.
