Windows 8 will go on sale on October 26

You can buy and update your existing version of windows 8 on 26 October that was announced by the Microsoft Corp.

Windows 8 will be available at price of $40 which is less than its previous versions of operating system. 

Those users who have bought Windows 7 computer on June 2 or later can upgrade the operating system for $15.

Windows - Reduce Runtime Memory

Every time with the new version of the operating system is release the hardware requirement specification also goes high. Minimum memory requiremets for windows operating system in chronological order.

• Windows 98 – minimum memory requirements 16 MB
• Windows XP – minimum memory requirements 64 MB
• Windows Vista – minimum memory requirements 512 MB
• Windows 7 (32 bit) – minimum memory requirement 1 GB
• Windows 7 (64bit) – minimum memory requirement 2 GB

Now, when Windows 8 Devloper Preview is release before downloading and using it, you might be thinking that my system is enough eligible for installing Windows 8 or not. Be relax and feel a great relief because usage of Windows 8 will require less memory, it means that we can run numbers of applications concurrently on windows 8 OS. Microsoft wish to keep all its Windows OS users to upgrage with Windows 8, with what ever hardware resources they have in the system. Which will force to upgarde to Windows 8.

Less memory usage will also reduce power consumption. Hmm, how ? In any PC, the RAM is the device which is constantly in use, this prompts the manufacturer to inculde more RAM and as amount or size of RAM increases the power consumption will also be raised.

Changes with the Memory Usage in Windows 8

Memory Combining
Do we know that when our applications is running its values are stored at mulitple locations on RAM, which is redundany – to reduce this, the memory combining technique is used which will identify the duplicate data or values of the application and it will keep only one copy of those values.

Service changes and reductions
There are numbers of OS services which are running constantly, which requires memory space. Windows 8 is going to remove numbers of such services. Whereas some of the services are “Manually Start”, “Always Running” or “Start on demand”.

You will notice in Plug and Play and Windows Update are trigger-started in Windows 8, whereas this services were always running in Windows 7.

This blog is yet incomplete, sorry for inconvience !

Windows 8 - The next version of Microsoft OS

 "Windows" is one of the most popular OS, since it has number of flavours in the stack and the number is increasing year by year with the enhancement in the quality of Windows OS. Windows 7 is doing exceptionally good since its release, but Microsoft's consistent efforts for making it the next version of Windows with enhancement which adds quality features to new OS - "Windows 8" with awesome UI.

In last week, the Microsoft release the beta version of Windows 8. You can experience it by downloading the Developer Preview of Windows 8, which is free of cost. It is with the three following different packages. 

1. 64-bit version – Only the OS
2. 32-bit version – Only the OS
3. 64-bit version with developer tools

Windows 8 Features

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Windows 8 comes with large numbers of new feature right from the Windows Apps Store to beautiful UI and improvised security features and with much more improvements.

•  Support for both x86PCs and ARM Tablets                      
  It is the first Windows OS that will work on both the x86 (x32 & x64) and ARM based tablets with processors from Intel and AMD.
•  Windows To GoThis feature will allow to windows to boot from USB drive (will work for both USB 2.0 and USB 3.0) with even user programs and apps. But unfortunately Microsoft says  the hibernate feature will not work with this.
  With this feature of Windows 8, you will have your favourite OS always with you in your pocket with the requires files, presentation slides, account excel sheets and images, which requires a computer system with Windows 7 or 8 OS. Thus, allows user to access or work with the fils from home, office or free spot.
  The most exciting quality of this feature is that the Windows will get freeze automatically when USB will be removed, and if it(USB) is inserted within 60 seconds than Windows 8 will continue to operate.
• Windows Store
  To be on the top of the technology list, Microsoft has launched a online Apps Store where you will get    all the required apps for windows 8, this is similar to Apple's Mac Apps Store.

• Windows 8 User Interface
  Windows 8 has got a awesome & beautiful interactive UI, it designed in such a  manner that will show the most vital  imformation to you. UI comes with a   fluid and intuitive interaction and navigation with touch or a mouse and keyboard.
  
  Lets us see the screen shot of the Windows 8

  1. Windows Logon Screen - Unlike traditional windows can be unlock by providing valid username and password, windows 8 can be unlock by just tapping on the right areas of the screen.

Windows Start Screen

Windows Control Panel

Playing Videos in Windows 8

Windows 8 Task Manager

• Internet Explorer 10
  Developer Preview of Windows 8 comes with IE 10, which do not support any support of external plugins and extensions, only includes Adobe Flash Plugin and Microsoft Silverlight.