SharePoint 2013: New Features and Comparison with SharePoint 2010

1. Instead of six pillars in SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013 have 4 features 
1. Share
2. Organize
3. Discover
4. Build 
5. Manage
2. Search - Combination of SharePoint OOB Search and FAST Search called SharePoint Search
3. Hover and preview documents in search results, document libraries, lists etc. We can editing and sharing in the preview itself
4. Whenever we create site/list/library we can define policy, terms, templates and retention policy
5. HTML 5 compatible
6. Mobile device channel option for IOS, Android 
7. Short URL do not need additional steps to create hyperlink in navigation
8. Synchronization with SkyDrive
9. Navigation - We can edit and modify on the same location without going to Site Action -> Site Settings
10. Edit with Dream Viewer (Master Page and CSS) and import the HTML code and apply in SharePoint
11. Site Action moved to right top side from left
12. SharePoint 2013 is all about Application, instead of creating list in 2010, we can create list App in 2013
13. App catalog to buy and install apps in SharePoint
14. SharePoint 2013 has 15 Hive Folder
15. No In-Place migration, only database migration
16. Social networking works as the concepts of Facebook, twitter
17. In SharePoint Designer 2013 in only code section, design has removed
18. Video Search as in You Tube

Test lab guides for SharePoint Server 2013

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh872914.aspx