On Wednesday, June 1, 2011, Microsoft Corporation presented the Windows 8 operating system at the Conference D9 in the state of California. This is the official press-release published at the site of Microsoft company. The new version of the operating system will work both on the computer architecture x86 and on the ARM mobile chips. Steven Sinofsky, the key Windows developer, told that "tablet" applications can now also be launched on the computers where the control is carried out with the help of the mouse and the keyboard.