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[align=center]Here are a few screens of the upcoming Windows 8[/align]
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Microsoft wants to take particular care with its next operating system and with the ability to customize it. This is visible right from the start screen, which lets you change the background image to the one of your choice. Another new feature: it will be possible to log in not by typing a password, but by drawing a predefined shape on the screen. A feature reminiscent of the authentication system that already exists on Android.
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Windows Phone's influence should be felt when using this Windows 8. It will indeed offer an interface quite close to the mobile version of the system, and designed to be usable especially on touch screens.
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File Explorer has also been changed in this new version of Windows. On the menu: the addition of new shortcuts, as well as the arrival of Smartscreen. The antiphishing and antimalware filter system, introduced in Internet Explorer, thus makes its way into the entire system by integrating into File Explorer. Let's also note that new shortcuts are arriving, such as the ability to drag a folder into the Explorer's address bar to...
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The ribbon was introduced in Office 2007. It made it easy to find several useful functions of the software and gave access to many shortcuts. It could end up integrated into the Windows 8 File Explorer, although this has not yet been finalized and is still under study at Microsoft.
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A big new feature of this Windows 8: an online app store, which is somewhat reminiscent of the Mac App Store on Mac OS X. This one would be called "Windows Store", and would serve not only to apply the various updates to Microsoft's system and software, but also to offer a whole catalog of utilities, games and other various software.
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Microsoft has taken the opportunity to sweep clean one of the oldest fundamentals of Windows: the management of programs installed on the system. We thus see an "Applications" folder appear, similar to the one present on Mac OS X, which will exclusively group together shortcuts to the various installed programs and will make it possible to find them all. Microsoft still has to clarify whether the presence of such a folder, which seems redundant with what is already offered by...
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Even if it's often far from perfect, the function allowing you to pause the copying of a file has been present for a few years on certain systems, notably Mac OS X. Microsoft long neglected this detail, but finally decides to include it in its system with Windows 8. This is not the only new feature of the file copy system, Microsoft also plans to improve file transfer times through this, and pausing a transfer will notably allow...
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History Vault is the backup tool as revisited by Microsoft. Its principle is simple: automatically back up the computer's data to an external hard drive so it can be recovered if needed. Microsoft should also offer a much simpler and more user-friendly interface for this feature, which builds on what Windows XP and Windows 7 already offer. It remains to be seen how complete and functional this feature will be.
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How many times has it happened that a Windows system ends up plagued by corrupted files, driver conflicts or even malware? While for many, the simplest solution was to simply format and reinstall, Windows 8's System Reset feature should speed up the process for them. It's indeed about resetting the system to zero, keeping only the base to remove any program, files or drivers added after its...
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Microsoft has confirmed it: Windows 8 will not have a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death), that famous blue screen that appeared in case of a fatal error forcing a computer restart. However, an error message intended for this kind of case will remain, black this time, which should quickly earn it the sweet nickname of "Black Screen of Death", that is... BSOD!
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The Windows Task Manager has also been slightly modified for the occasion, and sports a new, more complete interface, while generally keeping the same functions as before.
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Windows 8's power management gets a brand new feature for the system, named "Hybrid Boot". This consists of a mix between fully shutting down the system and putting it to sleep. It thus saves the image of the RAM at the moment of shutdown in order to reuse it when powering back on, thereby speeding up the system's startup.
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Re: Windows 8

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Re: Windows 8

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Personally Microsoft may add new features, but they turn out to be minor to me.
Windows XP never had it better, fast, complete and above all compatible with all devices/games.
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Re: Windows 8

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I'm always curious about new operating systems...
but in terms of stability and memory used... I favor XP
out with vista! good seven but the top is linux!
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Re: Windows 8

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publishers are already showing off their interfaces

Windows 8 is already drawing attention even though very few details are actually known. The presentation of part of the interface and the official blog have revealed a bit of information, but some essential points are still missing, notably the base technologies, the ones developers will use, or the App Store. This is clearly not stopping some publishers from already working on their creations.

Until recently, the site of the art director of USA Today Robbie Dillon indicated that the application was built to take advantage of Windows 8 by notably reusing the " look and feel " of the Metro interfaces. An interesting point despite the fact that Microsoft has not at any point talked about guidelines for future applications.

In fact, USA Today is getting ahead and potentially has some information. Otherwise, it's a test based on what has been seen of the system, but without addressing two issues either: the technologies used (HTML5 and JavaScript?) and the interface itself. This application is very likely just a concept for now.

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Re: Windows 8

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The video is a fake that dates from I don't know when anymore...
If you want a real video, go here: https://windows8beta.com/category/windows-8

Otherwise, for my part, I've always found Windows 7 superior to XP: no crashes, perfect driver installation, fast, compatible with everything...

Really looking forward to Win 8 :D

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