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U.S. Pacific Time on September 13 9 am, head of Microsoft's Windows Steven Sinofsky at the current BUILD conference for developers and global IT industry, demonstrate the highlights of Windows 8 Beta features.
Sinofsky release of Windows 8 words and deeds are we pleasantly surprised, first of all to our surprise he mentioned the Windows 8 and Windows 7 SP1 memory footprint compared. Begins with, Sinofsky Keynote for us in several group shows the number of Windows 7,
tiffany, which has reached 450 million users Win7, covering more than Windows XP.
and Windows 8 has two highlights worth our attention:
1. Backward compatible with Windows 7;
2.Win8 rebuild, to subvert the traditional Windows
then run Windows 8, the memory footprint is larger than the Windows 7 SP1? Years from Microsoft's experience in operating systems point of view, the more the new system looks more bloated.
Windows 8 like this? Unfortunately, this time we guess wrong - running Win8 memory footprint of 281MB, Win7 SP1 you need to 403MB. Win8, rewrite the Windows operating system's
foreign information editor's notes: Win8 with Win7 SP1 memory footprint
before the General Assembly in BUILD, Microsoft officially opened for Windows 8 blog, announced by the Windows developers Win8 features, attention to people who know Windows 8, Microsoft Hyper-V virtual Win8 integration capabilities, the resource manager will use the Ribbon interface, native support for USB3.0, support for WP7 applications installed ... Of course the biggest improvement is that only eight seconds boot speed !
June 2 this year, Microsoft opened the first meeting D9 milestone version of Windows 8, which are quite different with the Windows Classic, is Win8 using the Metro WP7 interface, suggesting that support for Windows 8 touch, but also will be used for touch screen devices such as tablet PCs.
D9 Conference, Microsoft revealed that Windows 8 designed for the two applications, the first run on the desktop in the traditional program, and another is based on HTML5 and JavaScript virtual mobile applications . But both the operating environment - more precisely,
tiffany, the entire operating system - support the touch-screen operation. Both of these applications still support mouse and keyboard operation, but also supports multiple virtual keyboard.
operating system new features: integrated cloud service
Microsoft BUILD Congress show Windows 8, D9 completely fulfilled the promise of the General Assembly, we can not only interface in Win8 run the Metro traditional applications can also install Virtual HTML5 written procedures or JS. In addition, Windows 8 combines the depth of Microsoft's wide range of cloud services, which in the Windows 7 system have not occurred. This year, Microsoft has officially released Office 365, Microsoft Office business software cloud services.
Win8 built SkyDrive cloud
Microsoft has been developing its own cloud services integrated into Windows 8, remove the cloud of hot trends, but also stick to PC position, to prevent competitors storm:
1. against the Chrome OS
Google from last year, has initiated the development Chrome OS, this application is a cloud-based operating system, according to Google's official explanation, the operating system is simple to just Chrome browser, other applications can be implemented on the network - Google Docs goes office software, Gmail, angry birds Chrome version, Google Storage, App Engine, and even cut cloud board, you can end that Although Chrome OS pre-installed in several brands of notebooks, but not in the country knocking on the door of the user, because for Internet users, the network off the cloud can not be used after application, there are still some concerns.
2. With the Apple cloud competition
Apple MobileMe cloud service with iCloud: Steve Jobs announced the first-generation iPhone, built the Apple MobileMe cloud service phone, but did did not cause a higher concern. The release of the iPhone 4, MobileMe Find My iPhone also functions as a reputation (Find My iPhone requires the user to register a MobileMe account). June 2 this year, Apple WWDC conference, with the release of iCloud cloud services, said iCloud will replace Apple MobileMe, the two combined.
because Apple products ahead of the appearance of fashion, each new release can lead to countless fans fans, so Apple's iCloud cloud services is bound with Microsoft, Google a competitive trend; released in October said The iOS 5, iTunes 10.4, and Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Lion systems will combine the depth iCloud.
3. Hold the Windows Live user
initial launch of Microsoft Azure cloud services business, but because there is little promotion led to a smaller number of users; and in the early SkyDrive Windows Live Messenger has been integrated into the personal page, when the MSN users in the update log, upload photos, these will be spread to store files on SkyDrive. The SkyDrive always keep a low profile until the team announced the closure of Microsoft's MSN blog site, each user's log and photos can be found on SkyDrive.
Windows 8 will be the introduction of the Metro system in the style of SkyDrive, said SkyDrive version is installed for the user to choose, 25GB of free storage space than iCloud 5GB of free storage to be much more generous, although the Amazon Cloud Store the current cloud services strategy for Microsoft not affected, but Microsoft released Windows 8 with the purpose of cloud services, it has demonstrated the tension and Windows Live users and degree of attention.
Web applications and the local client
Windows 8 interface using the Metro, is accused of a continuation of WP7 style phone system. Not only is fragmented at the beginning of the application interface options, when in the lock screen to see the shadow of WP7. Metro-style interface with a rain-delayed Windows 8 We are amazing, and the user experience will not be lower than Windows 7,
tiffany, well after news that Microsoft will launch for the Win8 compatible with WP7 system software, such as the suffix is. Appx file can be installed in Win8 and WP7.
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