Is Windows 8 a true cloud-ready operating system?

With Windows 8, the next big Microsoft desktop OS, will we see Windows become a true future-ready, cloud-based operating system? A recent Microsoft patent demonstrates how the OS can boot from the cloud.  Called Fast Machine Booting Through Streaming Storage, the patent describes how storage devices with different primacies could boot theoperating system through remote storage.  If you have a laptop or tablet, you can boot the device remotely and start to work.

Microsoft is pushing cloud- and web-based software deployment on its Windows 8 OS. “Microsoft is changing the rhythm of its business,” Microsoft’s Chief Technology Officer of Worldwide Services, Norm Judah, said at Microsoft’s Tech.Ed in Auckland. “Think of applications as services as opposed to packaged software.”

And another event, the Microsoft BUILD conference in California next month, will showcase the development tools of Windows 8 together with its new capabilities.  Before the conference, Microsoft is wooing developers away from webOS given HP’s receding gesture.  Microsoft is courting webOS developers with free phones, tools & training.  As part of the program, webOS developers are directed to Microsoft’s App Hub, and then offered tokens to download tools.

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Windows 8 to bring new file copy, delete, and move UI

If there is one thing that has remained constant in Windows through all the version is its copy, delete, and move file actions and this is something that Microsoft is looking to finally improve in Windows 8. Read More

Sinofsky sets the rules for the discussion around Windows 8 going forward.

The other day Steven Sinofsky, and the Windows 8 crew by proxy, broke cover with the first blog post about Windows 8 on the new Building Windows 8 blog, and now today we get another follow-up post from Sinofsky that … Read More

Microsoft setting traps for leakers with newest tester build of Windows 8

One of the more interesting aspects of when Microsoft was working on Windows 7 was the fact that there were very few leaks of the new operating system but that hasn’t held true for Windows 8 as we have already … Read More

New image of Windows 8 tablet photo sharing breaks cover

As we head into the Build conference this fall we are going to be hearing; and seeing a lot more about the different parts of Windows 8 and the different platforms it is being designed for. Read More

Microsoft employees excited and happy to be using Windows 8

While the rest of us will have to wait until at least the release of the public beta of Windows 8 to join in on the party it seems that the team at WinBeta has been getting word that … Read More

Microsoft to show off a pre-beta Windows 8 on July 10

Anticipation for Windows 8 is building and Microsoft apparently is going to be using their Worldwide Partners Conference that runs from July 10 to July 14 to show off a pre-beta build of Windows 8.

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HP’s big grin says nothing and everything about their Windows 8 tablets

When HP went and bought PALM and their webOS the general consensus was that they would be launching webOS as their alternative to Windows, especially when it came to the tablet market. This was considered to be a shot across the bows of the Microsoft battleship, itself trying hard to shift course. Read More