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 Recently, the hardware giants, Dell and Hp have announced that they will be making Windows 8 tablets in 2012 when it is released. In the past both Dell and Hp have made unsuccessful tablets, Hp Touchpad o_O. Now, the hardware giant ASUS has joined the Windows 8 tablet department most likely using one of the Eee-pad line tablets. The Eee-pad Transformer Prime is comming soon and rumors suggest that ASUS will load Windows 8 on it once it is released. The best Windows tablet on the market today is Samsung with the most powerful tablet yet; intel i5 proccessors, 4 gigabytes of RAM, and 13mm at its thickest point. Next year, if Windows 8 is successful, it may have a change against Apple's flagship product, the iPad...
On the Windows 8 blog, Microsoft has added an article about Windows 8's improvement in seach. Here's what part of the blog said:
"Searching via the Start menu has continued to evolve with each release. The Windows 8 Start search experience builds on top of search features available in Windows 7 and provides a unique view for each of the three system groups - Apps, Settings and Files. These search result views are a natural progression from the Windows 7 groups and are easily accessible from anywhere in the operating system via the Search charm or keyboard shortcuts. Separating the search results into views means we can tailor the experience for each data type. For example, the File search view provides you with filters and search suggestions while typing to quickly complete your query. In Windows 8, we expect people will be acquiring and installing more apps than ever before. Had we continued using the Windows 7 Start menu search interface to search for a Control Panel item, you would always see app or program results before Control Panel results, displacing many Control Panel items from being the first match. This and other constraints on the existing design required us to develop a new approach—this is especially true as we consider the increasing use of larger monitors or higher DPI screens where longer menus become even more difficult to use and navigate. In Windows 7, the total number of results that could be shown in the Start menu was limited. Depending on the number of groups with matching results, an average of 3-4 results were shown per group. Very rarely did all results for a group show up, and the organization of the results was pretty unpredictable. With Windows 8, on the other hand, we’re following an app-first model, where each app developer understands their data and users best, and knows the best way to present the information to them. Using the same model for search, we believe that always having a quick and consistent way to get directly to settings or file search results gives you precision and control over the type of results you’re looking for. In Windows 8, each view is tailored for the type of content you’re searching for, and shows all the results, instead of limiting them due to screen real-estate. One change a few of you will notice is that file search results no longer include email messages and contacts. The inclusion of email search never got the generalized support from mail clients that we had hoped for, though at least one mail client did support it (one reason why email searches are rare in the Start menu <0.05% of total searches). With the app-first approach in Windows 8, Metro style email apps will use the search contract to provide a rich set of filtered search results in a view customized for email. In comparison, email clients and other apps in Windows 7 have no control over how their search results are presented. We paid special attention to ensuring the number of keystrokes required to find and launch apps, settings, or files is at parity with or better than in Windows 7. We’ve introduce a set of keyboard shortcuts to help users quickly and efficiently get to settings search results (WIN key + W) or file search results (WIN key + F), thus reducing the total number of keystrokes needed to find and launch settings or files. We’ll cover how we maintained and increased keyboard efficiency across these views in more detail later in the post." You can read more at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/18/designing-search-for-the-start-screen.aspx  Yesterday Robert wrote about what many of use
were expecting, that Metro apps in Windows 8 would only be available through the new Windows Store. Windows 8 will support, as we know, both the new style Metro apps and also the traditional desktop software too. But will this dual-software approach cause confusion and division with Windows users? It can safely be said that the new Metro apps will be predominantly used by users of Tablets and smaller form-factor computer users with touch screens. There will be some other useful applications for Metro apps however, especially with young children, the elderly, people with learning or physical difficulties and disabilities and whole sections of society classed as computer novices. Metro therefore can have an extremely wide reach straight out of the launch door. It can safely be said however that all PC users, no matter of what ability, will occasionally need software of greater power and flexibility than Metro can currently offer; especially with the Ribbon interface being an odd omission from the Metro developer tools. This software can include photo and video editing and production, disc burning and office applications, primarily a word processor and spreadsheet. Windows users could then end up split distinctly into one of two camps and Windows 8 itself will essentially become two different products, each with its own identity; something that many people have said should have happened from the beginning. For Windows 8 to flourish and survive in the consumer space then we will probably need to see much greater interface flexibility, I would imagine via the Ribbon UI, added to Metro. If not, the future and popularity of Windows as a consumer platform, where people enjoy having the power to run full desktop apps, could falter.  Microsoft has made Windows 8 for one reason: to compete in the tablet industry (mostly Apple's successful iPad). Many ask how to two are compared next to each other. Today, at Windows 8 Daily, we present you a video that shows the two side by side. (Credit: Winrumors)
Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntSdfGzF60M&feature=channel_video_title  In the past, Windows has been known to occasionally crash. An unfriendly crash screen is shown on your screen. Most people call it the "Blue Screen of Death." Microsoft has posted in their blog that they have made the screen more friendly with an unhappy face showing that your computer feels the same way you do.
It’s certainly a much better error message to be greated with than the usual BSoD which just caused many users to panic. At least this time you can understand what’s happening and take some steps to try and rectify the problem. Hopefully we’ll never have to look at the BSoD with Windows 8, as no matter how friendly it may appear, it’s never good news.  Microsoft promised us major performance improvements with Windows 8
and while the new OS may still be in its infancy, it appears to be living up to these claims. Over at Lifehacker they decided to put Microsoft’s claims to the test and ran a few speed tests to compare the Windows8 developer preview with Windows 7. However they didn’t conduct those usual tests which are just a bunch of synthetic benchmarks which simply churn out numbers and don’t really make sense to the average user. Instead they performed an array of everyday tests where you could visually see the difference for yourself. All the tests were performed on a clean installation of each OS with the same programs installed. The system used to test them on was a 3.8GHz Intel Core i7 with 6GB of RAM, a 2TB Harddrive and an Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT. So the results? Well hands down Windows 8 won overall, and beat Windows 7 in nearly every single test that was carried out. However there was one test where it absolutely blew Windows 7 away, and that was the boot time. When Windows 7 was released it did boot surprisingly quick, but Microsoft have put a lot more work into Windows 8′s boot time, as a result it thrashed Windows 7 in this test, booting in just 10 seconds compared to Windows 7′s 35 seconds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6It3HNXxEZE&feature=player_embedded As I’m sure you can probably see some of the differences were very very slight and you probably wouldn’t notice. But bear in mind all these tests were run on a pretty powerful machine so you would probably see more improvement on an older lower spec machine. Lifehacker also noted that sometimes Windows 8 didn’t boot in this magical 10 seconds, sometimes it would take nearly as long as Windows 7. I think we can just put that down to the fact that it’s still only a developer preview and we’ve still nearly got a year to go until Microsoft release Windows 8 to the public, and chances are these little quirks will be gone by then. Source: Lifehacker  Microsoft has just recently released Windows 8 developer build to the world. Many changes and improvements have been spotted such as a cleaner interface and copy and paste improvements. Microsoft's long awaited surprise has just been shown. Some improvements include new apps, picture library, copy and paste, hyper-v support, and internet explorer 10. It has truely been an exciting day for the Windows 8 Daily and the whole technology world. Thank you for your support by reading this blog. You can access the file athttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/home/    Windows 8 builds have been proven to have faster boot times than Windows 7 and even Windows Phone 7. It is very surprising a full desktop Os can boot up faster than a tiny mobile platform. The video is on the Windows 8 Blog by Microsoft at the link below. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/08/delivering-fast-boot-times-in-windows-8.aspx
 In the Windows 8 blog, Microsoft said that they will be supporting ISO so no third party programs will be needed. The only problem is that users will not be able to create ISO images. Microsoft added ISO reading support to their new operating system because Windows 8 will be on tablets with no dvd readers.
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