Windows 8 Top Six New Features Listed

Top 6 New Exciting Features of Windows 8

1.Boot in less than 20 seconds

Microsoft developed a new “Hybrid Boot Mode” which drastically reduces boot time to less than 20 seconds.”Hybrid Boot Mode” is a combination of “Log Off” and “Hibernate”- which means, when a user clicks on shutdown, it closes all applications and log off then goes to hibernate mode.This reduces booting of hundreds of unnecessary files every time on the system startup.It simply loads the single hibernation file into memory and presents you with the log on screen.And when the user restarted the system, it reboots in normal mode.

2.Windows 8 comes with Tow User Interfaces

Microsoft Windows 8 will be available in 2 different user interface flavors.One is traditional UI which looks like Windows 7’s Aero and another one is touch friendly UI for tablet based machines.
Microsoft also developed a touch based version of Internet Explorer browser.Which only shows the address bar and hides browser history and tabbed view.

3.Windows Store

This is the name of the app store of Microsoft.It allows you to browse through categories, making app purchases, rate apps, download trails and so on.The new thing about this app store is
You no need to wait to launch the application until it is fully downloaded.These apps could be hosted in the cloud so that users stream only the part of the app they need at any given moment.This really helps users having tablet with limited disk space, no need to install these apps on their tablets, can just use it from the cloud.

4.Automatic Maintenance

Microsoft Windows 8 comes with a new feature “Automatic Maintenance” which automatically defrag your hard disks, runs the .Net optimization services and checks for solutions to problems.This feature drastically improves the performance of your system.

5.New Windows Explorer

With the new design of Windows Explorer tool in Windows 8, it is ever easy to do simple day-to-day tasks.It comes with a new menu, which will be having a lot of shortcuts day-to-day activities.

6.Windows Time Machine

With this new feature, now you can get back your deleted files or modified files.No need to use a third-party tool for these tasks.It gives you “Restore Previous Versions” option.This is same as Apple’s Time Machine in Mac OS X.