More here on WINDOWS TO GO:
http://www.bgr.com/2012/07/09/microsoft-windows-8-usb-stick/
Call it “Windows 8 on a stick.” During Microsoft’s Digital Worldwide Partner Conference on Monday, Microsoft showed off a USB stick that doesn’t just help users bring their personal data to different PCs but actually runs Windows 8 on that PC even if it runs on Windows 7.
The portable version of Windows 8, dubbed Windows To Go, saves users’ apps and settings on a 32GB USB drive so users can make any computer seem like their home computer. Microsoft pitched the USB stick as a simple way for corporate users to easily access their work data on multiple PCs while still enjoying access to Windows 8.
yet, you will not want to use this operating system anywhere. I’ve tried Windows 8, and it’s beyond awful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4boTbv9_nU
Whoopie.
The Metro interface still sucks.
Maybe if it looked less like the screen from Idiocracy..?
Wow, just now catching up to what the Linux community has been doing for years.
Microsoft is telling you to “stick it”.....in one of your other computers....
Something done wrong the first time will not cure itself the second time it is insalled.....
“Essentially, it’s the entire operating system stored on a USB drive. Very cool.”
And very old. Linux has been able to do this for a long time — off a USB, off a CD, off a DVD, off a spare partition, off a virtual desktop, etc.
It is good news, though. You’ll be able to have a Windows USB so you don’t have to have it taking up space on your drive — I like that.
What is this, a thread for homos? Did not anyone notice the total babe holding that thumb drive but me?
Geez...
And when you lose the stick??????????? lol
Just curious. All these years Redmond has been saying that your windoze license was always for one computer and one computer only. I guess the thinking here is what - that the performance of “windoze on a stick” will be such that nobody will want to do this except as a temporary convenience as opposed to a permanent solution?
Basically I wonder what their bean counters think about this?
So, I’m going to plug this into a piece of hardware Without an OS? What is the point?
A boot disk? How is this novel? I remember using those with Macs in the bad old days nearly twenty years ago.
While this is cool, the security implications are a little bit frightening.
I don’t see how they had any other choice — Apple is pwning the education-age market. A portable OS will help — a little — given the vast number of legacy boxes out there...
Sounds great to me. And they say Microsoft doesn’t push the industry forward.
Wow. How many years has it taken them to catch up to Linux?
I have had Windows 8 since the moment it came out. I love it.