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Re: Morning Tech Bits

Jan 2, 2013, 17:09

Steele Johnson

I love Windows 8. So many improvements over Win7. It's too bad everyone is listening to the naysayers. Here are some of the things I really like: - Boot time and shutdown time is nearly instantaneous. While your Win7 machine is chugging along loading drivers and allocating resources during boot, I'm already in a game playing. - Syncing my settings between home machine and work machine. If I make changes on one, I can enable the change on any number of my machines without having to drill through the settings all over again. - No more 3rd party antivirus. The new Windows Defender is built right in and doesn't bog down your machine (and actually works quite well). - Factory Reset (i.e Refresh)! If something goes wrong, no need to dig around for installation disks, etc,. Everything is there, hidden away for a clean reset. - Native ISO support. - Way better resource management. All my apps that are resource hogs run much faster under Win8. Including a lot of my games. - The Task Manager is actually useful now. - Search functionality makes way more sense and is much faster. - Keyboard shortcuts are so useful. You rarely need the mouse to get around the system and it's actually a faster way to navigate. - Who needs a start menu when you have a nice small menu that has everything you need? Right-click lower left corner and voila! Everything you need. - File History. Much better than Windows Backup and Restore. Makes way more sense! - You can disable the Metro interface if you don't want to use it. I configure to boot right to the desktop. - Windows To Go. If you want to use Win8 on your friend's slow Win7 machine, just plugin your flash drive and everything is compatible. - Create your own app groups for easy access. Again, no need for a start menu or a cluttered desktop. All your most used apps are grouped nicely and easy to find. - Multi-monitor support is MUCH better! - SkyDrive is seamless and very useful! - Storage Spaces is quite nice. Pool both internal and network drives to appear as one drive on your system (no more of that tedious drive letter navigation crap). - Supports a lot more file types natively without having to download 3rd party readers, etc (e.g. PDF reader, etc). I could go on and on. I thought I'd offer something a little positive over the average negative naysayer who's afraid of change.

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