Now that is a very nice feature.

I wonder if the recover feature will be in the final version of windows… I hope that they keep it as a feature in windows 8 in the final cause, it would be very usefully… Why can’t microsoft ditch system restore for that Recovery feature…

Because the System Restore function serves a different purpose. You certainly wouldn’t want to have to wait for a recovery which takes some time to finish when a simple System Restore would do the job and takes considerably less time.

Thinking about it, can’t you do close to the same thing now by doing a Windows repair from the Windows disc? (if you have one). I also would think that doing a reinstall like that in Win 8 would also require reapplying updates. It would really be nice if that wasn’t the case.

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How to Pin a Folder or Drive Directly to Windows 7 and Windows 8 Taskbar.

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Now just drag the finished shortcut down to the QuickLaunch bar. :slight_smile:

I asked microsofthelps on twitter if the refresh feature on windows 8 dev preview would be in the final version and they said

This feature looks like will make the final build :) ^BK

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All Your Favorite Android Apps now on your PC
Alpha version now available for Windows 7 also works on Windows 8 :slight_smile:

This will be part of Windows 8 when it’s released.

Building the next generation file system for Windows: ReFS
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/16/building-the-next-generation-file-system-for-windows-refs.aspx

Say Goodbye to the BIOS and Hello to the UEFI

http://download.windowssecrets.com/images/wsn/W20120119-TS-AwardUEFI.jpg

Windows 8 will finally pull the PC industry out of the BIOS generation and into a far more capable — and controversial — alternative, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface.

Holy Sh#t :o I’m getting very worried moving to W8 otherwise I better grab and stick with W7 for as long as I can…God Crikey the future has change very quickly :-\

On some PC’s you can already have that in Win7

Installing avast! 7 Free Beta on Windows 8 Developers Copy


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http://youtu.be/KVR_x14Sa2o

Windows 8 set for October 2012 launch

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/43952/windows-8-october-2012-launch

other posted items on the full beta version

The beta of Windows 8 will launch in late February 2012, as will its app store, which initially will include only free apps from developers Microsoft invites.

On December 6, Microsoft offered a press preview of the app store it is building for Windows 8 — and which will launch in late February 2012, concurrent with the release of the one and only Windows 8 beta.

(The Next Web reported recently that the Windows 8 beta would hit in late February, according to their unnamed sources.)

As Microsoft indicated at Build, its Store will allow licensing, purchase and download of Metro-style apps from directly within the Store. Desktop (non-Metro-style) apps cannot be downloaded from inside the store, but developers can promote those apps there and offer links to them, officials said back in September.

At today’s Store preview, Microsoft officials shared updated stats on Windows. They claimed that there are now 1.25 billion Windows PCs in existence (1 billion was the last Microsoft-provided figure I recall). They said that 3 million copies of Windows 8 developer preview have been downloaded since September, when Microsoft made that version available to interested testers. And they said there have been 500 million copies of Windows 7 sold to date. (That figure was 400 million, as of July 2011.)

According to AllThingsD, which liveblogged the store preview, Microsoft is allowing developers to price apps from between $1.49 to $999.99 (as well as offer them for free, one would assume). There will be gradations in the percentage Microsoft gets as its cut, blogged Ina Fried, the AllThingsD reporter covering the event. Microsoft will start with a 30 percent cut, which will drop to 20 percent as soon as an app makes $25,000 from sales and in-app purchases.

Fried noted that Google takes a five percent cut on apps sold through the Chrome Web Store, while Apple gets 30 percent for its Mac and iOS app stores.

When Microsoft launches the app store in late February, it will include free apps only, and included apps will only include those from developers that received invitations from Microsoft, Fried blogged.

Update: A few more tidbits:

  • Microsoft is launching a “First Apps Contest” for developers who’d like their apps to be considered for the Store’s opening. More details on the contest can be found at buildwindowscontest.com.

  • The Windows 8 App Certification Kit, Windows Developer Dashboard and the Windows Store App Certification requirements, are all going to be available via MSDN page.

*A new Windows Store blog launched today, as well.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsstore/archive/2011/12/06/announcing-the-new-windows-store.aspx

Now that Microsoft has (surprisingly) shared its beta date target, I already am seeing tweets from folks wondering whether February means Windows 8 can still hit the rumored release-to-manufacturing (RTM) target of Q2/Q3 2012. I, for one, believe it still can, given Microsoft’s increasingly condensed beta cycle and corporate decisions to release code only when it’s pretty much complete.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-previews-windows-8-app-store-launching-with-the-beta-in-late-february/11340

I read this article yesterday and even though I usually don’t agree with the writer in his other postings, I thought he made some good points in this one.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/five-reasons-why-windows-8-will-be-dead-on-arrival/10275?tag=content;siu-container

Especially where he says that the best new features in Win 8 could be applied to Win7 with an update or Service Pack.

You wouldn’t pay for a win7 SP update though ;D

On that same line, you could have done the same ting for vista and that certainly didn’t happen.

Since I’ve used Windows 8 for quite some time, I can tell you I wouldn’t go back unless I had no choice in the matter.
Besides, it will only get better by the time it’s finally release. :slight_smile:

It isn’t so much going back, but what win8 offers over and above win7 and is it worth paying for.

From what I’m seeing reported, it seems many don’t think so, only time will tell.

Exactly, and that’s why it won’t happen. I think the guy may be somewhat exaggerating the case though since even Vista, which is widely accepted as a “failure”, still sold over 88 million copies. A lot of companies would love to have a failure like that. :wink:

Windows 8 Consumer Preview due February 29

Lucky it is a leap year or we could be waiting 4 years.