Microsoft's Windows 8 Goals Revealed (Leaked)

The Register ^ | 29 June 2010 | Gavin Clarke

[dayglored]

Microsoft's successor to Windows 7 is taking shape - and that shape looks suspiciously like an iPad supplementing a diet of media with online services.

A set of Microsoft slides, apparently leaked online here and expanded here, have mapped out the company's design and feature goals for Windows 8.

Among those goals: Windows 8 works on a slate form factor in addition to the regular laptop and "all-in-one" PC,...

Among the other goals for Windows 8 are a "reset button" for use if - or more likely when - your PC begins to mysteriously slow down and performance begins to drag like a dog. Windows 8 will let you reset and retain your data...

In trying to differentiate Windows 8 from Apple, Microsoft said it plans to stress features for partners such as Windows 8's customization and the different form factors.

There are some interesting aspects to Windows 8, if the slides are genuine. Facial recognition being the biggest. This would suggest some overlap with software used in Project Natal - just don't let your cat or anything else with a face near the screen when you're trying to log on...

[BigSkyFreeper]

Nope, I don’t use either of them. I use Powerdesk, which has many of the same functions built in.

[tacticalogic]

Nope, I don’t use either of them. I use Powerdesk, which has many of the same functions built in.

Powershell is not a file management application, it's a shell/scripting environment. The out-clipboard bit is part of the SoruceForge cmdlets.

If you've got Windows 7, Powershell is installed by default. It was back-ported to run on Vista and XP SP2 and later. Both Powershell and the PSCX community extensions are free to download from MS and SourceForge, respectively.

Even without the community extensions, you send a directory list to your default printer from a PS prompt with:

dir c:/ -recurse | out-printer

You can also send it to a text file or to a .csv file to load into a spreadsheet or database.

If you go back and forth between Windows and *nix systems, Powershell aliases common commands to both Windows and *nix shell equivalents. Both of these will product the same result:

dir c:\ | out-printer

ls c:/ | out-printer

You can also invoke the native DOS version from within Powershell and send that to the printer using:

cmd /c "dir c:\ /b /s" | out-printer

[tarheelswamprat]

Just wait’ll the porn industry gets a hold of that... /g

[Richard Kimball]

Rule 34. If it exists, there’s porn about it.

[Swordmaker]

Here is what is on my Mac:

Well, the extra RAM will certainly help. That's a good machine. What I can't tell from that list is how much of the stuff you've downloaded is running... and what version of the OS you have. The more you have of the downloaded software running at the same time, the slower it will be. Each app that runs in the back ground will take system resources. Also if the RAM is limited, as the app gets focus, it may need to move other processes to virtual memory on the HD... a slow process. With more RAM, that becomes less necessary. You should see a good speed boost.

One word of advice... when posting a list like that on the Internet... blank out the serial number. Someone can take that, report the computer stolen... and provides that serial number.

If you lose it... and it gets found. Guess who gets it back? Not you. Or you attempt to sell it someday through a pawn shop... Guess who gets arrested for possession of stolen property and has to prove you own it legally.

[garjog]

Thanks. It is great to be in a community where we can share knowledge.

Oops. Good to know not to post my serial number.

Let me see if I can get an moderator to delete it.