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2012-05-31 21:32:15 (474 comments, 1521 reshares, 2448 +1s)

Download Windows 8 Release Preview #Windows8
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2012-04-27 20:49:46 (19 comments, 6 reshares, 34 +1s)

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/consumer-preview

2012-01-09 12:40:35 (57 comments, 56 reshares, 75 +1s)

Windows 8 will refresh your PC without losing your data

Windows 8 will provide a refresh option that can automatically restore your PC to a clean state without erasing all your data and customized settings.
Due to appear in the Windows 8 beta that will debut next month, the refresh option makes good on Microsoft's earlier promise that it would give users an easy way to restore Windows in the event of a problem.
As described in yesterday's Building Windows 8 blog by Desmond Lee, a program manager on Microsoft Fundamentals team, the new OS will actually offer two ways to bring Windows back to factory condition:
• The refresh option will keep all personal data, important settings, and Metro style apps, and then reinstall Windows.
• The reset option will securely remove all data, settings, and applications, and then reinstall Windows.
Refreshing Windowswou... more »

2012-01-09 12:38:06 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 20 +1s)

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2011-11-09 15:39:53 (43 comments, 48 reshares, 54 +1s)

DOWNLOAD Windows8 (x86) 2.8 GB
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2011-11-09 15:36:31 (6 comments, 29 reshares, 42 +1s)

2011-11-09 15:35:40 (11 comments, 20 reshares, 18 +1s)

2011-11-09 15:34:20 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 11 +1s)

Windows 8 Idle Duration Histogram

2011-11-09 15:34:36 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Windows 8 Average idle Power (mW)

2011-11-09 15:31:51 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Building a power-smart general-purpose Windows

In this post, we look at the broad topic of developing an OS to reduce power consumption. We've seen an ever-increasing emphasis on power management in the OS from two perspectives. First, as Windows 8 comes to market, it is easy to see two-thirds of all PCs shipping as portable devices operating on batteries some or most of the time. And second, in the workplace, there is an increasing demand for desktop machines with a reduced carbon footprint as we look to save energy wherever we can. In all cases, this goes beyond standby/hibernate/resume performance and gets to the heart of this post which is about reducing the overall power consumption of the OS and providing OS support for power-saving capabilities in modern hardware. Pat Stemen, a program manager on our Kernel team, authored this post.
--Steven

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2011-11-09 15:21:20 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Welcome to Building Windows 8

Building the next release of Microsoft Windows is an industry-wide effort that Microsoft approaches with a strong sense of responsibility and humility. Windows 8 reimagines Windows for a new generation of computing devices, and will be the very best operating system for hundreds of millions of PCs, new and old, used by well over a billion people globally.

We've been hard at work designing and building Windows 8, and today we want to begin an open dialog with those of you who will be trying out the pre-release version over the coming months. We intend to post regularly throughout the development of Windows 8, and to focus on the engineering of the product. Welcome to “Building Windows 8,” or as we call it, “B8.”

For the Windows team, this blog is an important part of developing Windows 8, as was our blog for Windows 7. Bloggingallows ... more »