I still cannot believe that they skipped a number! Boy, the marketing department must really be hitting rock bottom on the ideas.
I think this is even worse then their commercials which had a bunch of people dancing around with a tablet that makes a clicking noise when you attach the keyboard. Sean Spiceworks glad to see you guys jumped on this quick!
NT has always had crazy version numbers, it started at 3. I think MS have listened to all the grumblings from W8 and have made W10 a nice smooth looking version of W7 but with all the useful cloud apps we need.
Only spent an hour randomly hacking through it's options last night but it looks very neat indeed. I setup Mail, Skype, One Drive etc, arranged some desktop shortcuts for useful stuff then patched it and installed VMTools before shutting down. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. Popular Topics in General Windows.
Which of the following retains the information it's storing when the system power is turned off? Submit ». Thai Pepper. Jack Veriato This person is a verified professional. Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional. Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics.
There is no doubt that the new Metro UI, which some of us know already from Windows Phone, is the most prominent and controversial enhancement. The main point about Metro is that its user interface and the corresponding apps are optimized for touch screens.
Designing for Metro style and the desktop. Designing the Start screen. Evolving the Start menu. Designing search for the Start screen. Reflecting on your comments on the Start screen. You've probably heard that Microsoft gave up the Windows Live brand. Windows Live accounts are now called Microsoft accounts.
The latter allows you to store personal data and app settings in the cloud. Most visible is the new ribbon, which Microsoft introduced with Office What may be more interesting are the new file management features, such as improved duplicate file identification, multiple channel support in the Server Message Block SMB protocol, and better handling of confirmations and interrupts.
There are many more new Windows Explorer features. Acting on file management feedback. Improvements in Windows Explorer. Windows To Go allows you to boot up Windows 8 from a flash drive. This feature is more powerful than you might think. Aaron Denton reviewed Windows 8 Hyper-V for 4sysops. This is still not instant-on, but it is certainly a great improvement. Delivering fast boot times in Windows 8.
Reports indicate that Windows 8 is considerably faster than Windows 7. In the 4sysops Windows 8 feature request poll , more than people chose better performance as the most important new feature. Good that Microsoft listens to their customers.
Windows 8 preview beats Windows 7 in most performance tests. I could have added this feature to the Windows Explorer or the Microsoft account sections. Or as Steve Ballmer would put it: "We will all be in. This feature caused a lot of stir in the Linux community because many Open Source guardians feared that Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI would prevent people from installing Linux on computers that are delivered with Windows 8.
These fears were unjustified. Essentially, UEFI uses public key cryptography to allow secure boot-ups by reducing the risk of boot loader attacks. Hard times are to come for malware programmers and third-party antivirus vendors. However, Windows Defender will become full-blown antivirus software as it will not only protect Windows 8 from spyware, as in Windows 7, but also from viruses and worms. It will also feature real-time protection. Protecting you from malware.
Windows 8 will support partitions larger than 2TB, which will be important for the next netbook and tablet generation. Enabling large disks and large sectors in Windows 8. Storages Spaces allow you to combine multiple disks into one storage pool. The new technology is comparable to RAID, but it is more flexible and easier to configure. Storage pools support thin provisioning physical space is only used when the capacity is needed and resiliency mirroring for fault tolerance.
Virtualizing storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency. I already covered the main new features of the Windows 8 setup process. Certainly most interesting is the new web setup, which allows you to install Windows 8 through the Internet. Improving the setup experience. The major improvement in Windows 8 is that security-related restarts will happen only once a month on the second Tuesday.
The only exceptions are critical security updates—for example, if a computer worm is spreading. Microsoft also introduces a few changes in the way users will be informed about updates and restarts. Minimizing restarts after automatic updating in Windows Update. In every Windows version, Microsoft tries to improve power management. However, major advances in recent years were developed by the hardware industry—in particular, the battery makers.
But Windows 8 comes with a promising new concept that is known from smartphones. Apps in the background are suspended, thereby consuming no more energy. This feature will only work for Metro apps and not for legacy Windows desktop applications. Building a power-smart general-purpose Windows. Updating live tiles without draining your battery. Improving power efficiency for applications.
The new Task Manager in Windows 8 is nice, but I guess most IT pros will barely appreciate it considering that free tools like Process Explorer and Process Hacker have much more to offer. Interesting for server admins is the new heat map of logical processors. The Windows 8 Task Manager. The new Windows Store for Metro apps is certainly a Windows 8 highlight. Previewing the Windows Store.
I hate it when people say they hate something, but I really do hate passwords. Secure passwords are hard to memorize. And, even if you use a password management tool , you need to at least be able to log on to your Windows machine before you can use it. With Windows 8, you can perform gestures on a picture of your choice to log in. Such a gesture is probably easier to memorize but still hard to crack with a brute force attack.
The only problem I see is that gestures are easy to spot by someone at your back. Windows 8 picture password. Signing in with a picture password.
Many PC vendors have their own tool to reset a PC to the state it was delivered. It is good that Microsoft integrates this functionality now into Windows because it standardizes PC troubleshooting.
However, more interesting is the PC Refresh feature of Windows 8, which allows you to keep specific settings such as user names and passwords, data, and installed apps. You can create a base image to which users can go back if they have messed up their PC. Refresh and reset your PC. A new option has been added to the setup screen for users reinstalling Windows 10 on a previously installed and activated system.
If your system has a Digital License attached to it, Windows 10 will automatically upgraded:. When you upgraded from a previous version of Windows or receive a new computer preinstalled with Windows 10, what happened is the hardware your PC will get a digital entitlement, where a unique signature of the computer will be stored on Microsoft Activation Servers.
The Windows 7 or Windows 8 genuine license you were previously running will be exchanged for a diagnostics key. Anytime you need to reinstall Windows 10 on that machine, just proceed to reinstall Windows It will automatically reactivate. You will prompted to enter a product key a couple times through the installation, click I don't have a key and Do this later.
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