Eight things to look forward to in Windows 8

1. An apps store. Apple's App Store has been a raging success, as has Android's Market. So Windows 8 appears as if it will also have an app store called, not surprisingly, "Windows Store." But there are no indications how Microsoft will manage the countless thousands of apps available for Windows, or many other details about the store at this point.
   
   
2. Improved energy efficiency. The slides spend a good deal of time describing the many ways in which Windows 8 will be more energy efficient, including an update to the core kernel manager, reduced power use while idle, better sleep and resume, and more.
   
   
3. Faster startup. Windows 8, according to the slides, will feature faster startup through a new feature that combines the Logoff and Hibernate states.
   
   
4. Push-button reset. This will allow you to re-install Windows with the push of a button. Most important is that Windows will retain all of your files, settings, applications, and so on, without wiping them out.
   
   
5. Face recognition. This new safety feature will let you log on using face recognition.
   
   
6. Support for slates. Slates are one of the form factors Windows 8 will support. WindowsPad anyone?
   
   
7. Better help and support. Every time a new version of Windows comes out, this seems to be on the punch list. We'll have to see if this time it actually happens.
   
   
8. Better identity management. The decks lay out a vision in which user accounts don't just live on one PC --- you can carry them from computer to computer, and to other devices. Identities can live and be backed up in the cloud. As a slide puts it, "Identity evolves from machine centric to user centric."

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I don't see 8 coming out anytime soon considering how wildly successful 7 was.

I'm still using XP.

I'm still using XP.

entropyecho

I have a Windows App store. It's called The Pirate Bay. -I kid, I kid. TPB is done.

[QUOTE="entropyecho"]

I'm still using XP.

Hexagon_777

Windows 8 promises to be the biggest let down yet.

Considering the new fangled file system Microsoft intended for Vista has not been mentioned, I would hazard a guess that it's been put on hold and so Windows is still going to be basically the same crap it has been since Vista.

[QUOTE="Hexagon_777"][QUOTE="entropyecho"]I'm still using XP.entropyecho

Windows 8 promises to be the biggest let down yet.

Considering the new fangled file system Microsoft intended for Vista has not been mentioned, I would hazard a guess that it's been put on hold and so Windows is still going to be basically the same crap it has been since Vista.

JayneDee

Faster start up? Why do they only seem to be focusing on this now? Don't they realise that it is a pain to wait over a minute of three before you can start using your computer? This should have been a focus form the very start. Instant gratification. Ubuntu, for instance, starts up in under a minute.

Any "Windows Store" for apps is going to be a pure gimmick since Windows is an open platform. No one will have any reason to buy something off a Windows app store unless there just so happens to be a handy application that is sold only on that site. It's not like the iPod/iPhone/iPad where you have no choice but to go through the app store if you want something. gameguy6700

Faster start up? Why do they only seem to be focusing on this now? Don't they realise that it is a pain to wait over a minute of three before you can start using your computer? This should have been a focus form the very start. Instant gratification. Ubuntu, for instance, starts up in under a minute.

Hexagon_777

Umm, you do realise it can't be a "let down" if you're not anticipating it to be good first, right?kamikaze_pigmy

[QUOTE="Hexagon_777"]

Faster start up? Why do they only seem to be focusing on this now? Don't they realise that it is a pain to wait over a minute of three before you can start using your computer? This should have been a focus form the very start. Instant gratification. Ubuntu, for instance, starts up in under a minute.

cybrcatter

[QUOTE="kamikaze_pigmy"]Umm, you do realise it can't be a "let down" if you're not anticipating it to be good first, right?JayneDee

[QUOTE="Hexagon_777"]Faster start up? Why do they only seem to be focusing on this now? Don't they realise that it is a pain to wait over a minute of three before you can start using your computer? This should have been a focus form the very start. Instant gratification. Ubuntu, for instance, starts up in under a minute.cybrcatter

[QUOTE="kamikaze_pigmy"]Umm, you do realise it can't be a "let down" if you're not anticipating it to be good first, right?JayneDee

[QUOTE="cybrcatter"][QUOTE="Hexagon_777"]

Faster start up? Why do they only seem to be focusing on this now? Don't they realise that it is a pain to wait over a minute of three before you can start using your computer? This should have been a focus form the very start. Instant gratification. Ubuntu, for instance, starts up in under a minute.

entropyecho

im using a mac right now as my laptop, but my brother's pc is on windows 7. i love windows 7. :D it's faster, looks better, and it's everything vista should have been.

edit: whoops, to stay on topic, i hope they dont send out windows 8 anytime soon because that would be very expensive on our part. i mean, we just bought windows 7 >_>

improve windows 7 first please.

[QUOTE="cybrcatter"][QUOTE="Hexagon_777"]

Faster start up? Why do they only seem to be focusing on this now? Don't they realise that it is a pain to wait over a minute of three before you can start using your computer? This should have been a focus form the very start. Instant gratification. Ubuntu, for instance, starts up in under a minute.

entropyecho

I'm still using XP.

entropyecho

You're good until 2014 then, as long as you have SP3.

Yay for pathetically minimal amounts of storage! :Dkamikaze_pigmy

Besides, MS can't come out with a good stable operating system just yet, they need to go through a few iterations of garbage (think Win98, Me, dare I say Vista).

??? why talk about 8 when 7 is pretty good.

[QUOTE="gameguy6700"]Any "Windows Store" for apps is going to be a pure gimmick since Windows is an open platform. No one will have any reason to buy something off a Windows app store unless there just so happens to be a handy application that is sold only on that site. It's not like the iPod/iPhone/iPad where you have no choice but to go through the app store if you want something. Hexagon_777

improve windows 7 first please.

rowzzr

Microsoft needs to stop moving so damn fast.

They're ruining PC gaming especially by constantly creating new DX versions, we can't move forward if the standard is always changing.

Microsoft needs to stop moving so damn fast.

They're ruining PC gaming especially by constantly creating new DX versions, we can't move forward if the standard is always changing.

Mystic-G

Microsoft needs to stop moving so damn fast.

They're ruining PC gaming especially by constantly creating new DX versions, we can't move forward if the standard is always changing.

Mystic-G

So long as it doesnt go the "cloud computing" way, I am fine with anything.

i just hope windows 8 has some sort of new style or somethin, cuz its getting boring 8-Bitterness

[QUOTE="cybrcatter"][QUOTE="Hexagon_777"]Faster start up? Why do they only seem to be focusing on this now? Don't they realise that it is a pain to wait over a minute of three before you can start using your computer? This should have been a focus form the very start. Instant gratification. Ubuntu, for instance, starts up in under a minute.Hexagon_777

Would you rather they didn't show an interest in it at all? :?

Yes, they should have been on it from the start, but at least they're on it now as opposed to, say, never.

So long as it doesnt go the "cloud computing" way, I am fine with anything.

Teenaged

[QUOTE="8-Bitterness"] i just hope windows 8 has some sort of new style or somethin, cuz its getting boring entropyecho

[QUOTE="Teenaged"]

So long as it doesnt go the "cloud computing" way, I am fine with anything.

entropyecho

(if there is an option to disable it of course)

[QUOTE="Mystic-G"]

Microsoft needs to stop moving so damn fast.

They're ruining PC gaming especially by constantly creating new DX versions, we can't move forward if the standard is always changing.

entropyecho

Woah now. You're saying the R800 and Geforece 400 series aren't great DX11 cards?cybrcatter

wat, 8 is already in the plans? They've just released 7, and I'm still on XP.F1_2004