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What's New In The Final Build Of Windows 8?

What you have here is an onscreen keyboard on which you can play chopsticks to your heart's content, but there are also a handful of bundled classics (think "The Entertainer") that you can play along to in a kind of instrumental karaoke. You can also record and save whatever tunes you've made https://www.ehctech.org/services/pc-optimization/ up. In the case of those pre-installed songs, specific keys will glow blue when you're supposed to hit them but, as you can imagine, this is tedious and un-fun if all you've got at your disposal is a mouse. As with Paintplay, we imagine this would make for a better time-waster on a tablet.

The build was released for download later in the day in standard 32-bit and 64-bit versions, plus a special 64-bit version for developers. This version included SDKs and developer tools ( Visual Studio Express and Expression Blend ) for developing applications for Windows 8's new interface. 23 The Windows Store was announced during https://www.ehctech.org/services/pc-optimization/ the presentation, but was not available in this build. 24 25 According to Microsoft, there were about 535,000 downloads of the developer preview within the first 12 hours of its release. 26 Originally set to expire on March 11, 2012, in February 2012 the Developer Preview's expiry date was changed to January 15, 2013. 27

Now there is a new set of specifications out, creatively dubbed TPM 2.0. While TPM allowed users to opt in and out, TPM 2.0 is activated by default when the computer boots up. The user cannot turn it off. Microsoft decides what software can run on the computer, and the user cannot influence it in any way. Windows governs TPM 2.0. And what Microsoft does remotely is not visible to the user. In short, users of Windows 8 with TPM 2.0 surrender control over their machines the moment they turn it on for the first time.

But for all intents and purposes, Windows 8 as it stands with the Release Preview is basically done. If you want to see what Windows 8 will look like when it's out on new PCs and tablets this year, the Release Preview will give you an almost exact indication from the software side. The Metro https://www.ehctech.org/services/pc-optimization/ tiled interface is here to stay. Flash support is back (at least for the 300 or so sites that are on the Internet Explorer 10 white list to use the new touch-optimized version of Flash that Adobe developed). And the Start button and option to boot directly to the Desktop are not coming back.

Microsoft's priorities when developing its new "flagship operating system" (their term) are immediately evident by the loving care that they lavished on their new Configurable Remote Applications, affectionately called CRApps by experienced Windows 8 users. The "Remote" appellation refers to the https://www.ehctech.org/services/pc-optimization/ playful habit CRApps have of starting up on their own without having been clicked. Try to pull a chart from your documents folder and instead, a CRApp starts a slide show of your niece's graduation. Try to activate your Windows 8 Pro Pack and a CRApp pops up displaying the weather in Ulan Bator.

Windows Explorer , which has been renamed File Explorer, now includes a ribbon in place of the command bar. File operation dialog boxes have been updated to provide more detailed statistics, the ability to pause file transfers, and improvements in the ability to manage conflicts when copying files. 59 A new "File History" function allows incremental revisions of files to be backed up to and restored from a secondary storage device, 60 while Storage Spaces allows users to combine different sized hard disks into virtual drives and specify mirroring, parity, or no redundancy on a folder-by-folder basis. 61

Undoubtedly the best new feature in Windows 8.1 split-screen mode allows you to carve up the modern UI into two to four windows, each with its own app or, in some cases, multiple instances of the same app. Unlike in desktop mode, these windows do not float, but instead remain snapped to one side of the screen or to the middle with a border you can slide left or right to give them more or less real estate. We particularly enjoyed being able to place two or more browser windows side-by-side or put the mail client right next to the browser.

Memories is a digital photobook, with pages and blurbs for captions. We'd like to make a suggestion for the UI, which is that we think people should be able to click on a caption to edit it. As it is, you have to press Start-Z for the settings, click https://www.ehctech.org/services/pc-optimization/ "Edit" and then change the text in a pop-up box. We'd also like the option of changing the color and font for the copy. Some themes could be helpful, too. On the flip side, having to go into the settings to add and reorder pages feels intuitive.