If you have Windows 8, do not install anything without a license

Nadim Kobeissi, an independent Canadian developer, recognized the existence of at least questionable function of Windows 8. This allows the operating system to notify Microsoft every time the user installs a new application.

This process isolates using SmartScreen function that provides the full details to Microsoft about your installed applications. Obviously, the accusations about privacy violations and data collection appeared. And this time for good reason.

Microsoft has responded to the accusations, saying it is a function that protect users from malware.


Moreover, according to several experts who reviewed the application, it seems more checking the legitimacy of installed programs on the operating system than the risk it poses to the system, concluding that it would be a tool to collect data and to hold liability a user which uses, for example, pirated software, without knowing that it is followed.

Windows 8 has a new logo! View the history of all the Windows logos

Windows is now the most popular operating system for PCs and laptops. It recently appeared the logo of the next version, Windows 8.
It is interesting that it looks like the first Windows logo, which appeared 26 years ago, when this Microsoft product was not a Microsoft operating system, but a GUI application made ​​for MS-DOS system.

The new Windows 8 logo

The retro style brings us very well remember the Windows 1.0 and Windows 2.x.

Here it is the history of the Windows logos since 1985 to today:

Windows 1.0 (1985), Windows 2.0 (1987) and Windows 2.1 (1988)

Windows 1.0 and Windows 2.x

Windows 3.0 (1990) and Windows 3.1x (1992)

Windows 3.x

Windows 95 (1995)

Windows 95

Windows 98 (1998)

Windows 98

Windows Millenium (2000)

Windows Millenium

Windows 2000 (2000)

Windows 2000

Windows XP (2001)

Windows XP

Windows Vista (2007)

Windows Vista

Windows 7 (2009)

Windows 7

Tilt feature in Windows 8: Windows 8 can run from a USB stick.

A German blogger has managed to run the new Windows 8 operating system on a memory stick. Moreover, the whole operation was performed on a MacBook Pro. Windows 8 can run on a 8GB of flash memory, using a Windows To Go application.

The discovery was made by a German blogger, he managed to run Windows 8 on a MacBook Pro. He was able to control all applications, documents and settings, as the new operating system from Microsoft would be installed on that laptop.

Steps you should follow to run Windows 8 from a USB stick.

Windows 8, the latest operating system released by Microsoft. See how Windows 8 looks like.

Eight years have passed since Microsoft came up with a new vision in terms of operating system. Distributions followed radically changed from what was used to receive the user before. Windows Vista and Windows 7 were the versions that announced a new era in the development of the Windows operating system. Now, after eight years of changes, Microsoft is back to basics with the launch of Windows 8.

Microsoft announced on September 14 the launch of Windows 8, designed to run on both PCs and touch screen devices and which is based on Metro concept, a concept used by Microsoft in Windows Phone 7.

Perhaps, beyond the concept design and brand new, Windows 8 has as strength points adaptability at devices with touch screen, tablets, and the speed with which it opens and closes: it needs only 8 seconds to start .

Also, Start menu, as we knew it in Windows 7 disappears and the desktop user can bring that information wants to have on hand. Being adapted for device's touch screen, Windows 8 has a virtual keyboard, directly on the screen, making the touch screen technology user experience much easier.

Other notable and wonderful things at Windows 8 is the speed with which it opens and closes, probably because the new concept of running applications, completely new version of Internet Explorer 10 store applications and integrated antivirus.

Windows 8 will have lower system requirements than Windows 7

The news that Windows 8 will not need any hardware upgrade and it will have the same or lower system requirements as Windows 7 does comes as a relief for users of Microsoft operating systems.

This might be because Microsoft could try to create an operating system suitable for both tablets and for PCs. The result would be lower hardware requirements, knowing that a tablet has weaker hardware features than a computer.

Windows 8 is the codename for the next version of Microsoft Windows operating system.

According to officials, Windows 8 will be at the same level or even below, so users that are satisfied with how their PC's are running Windows 7, will certainly be satisfied and how to run future OS of the giant from Redmond on the same configuration.

Remember that the minimum system requirements for Windows 7:
- 1 GHz processor
- 1 GB RAM (for versions of OS 32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit version)
- 16 GB free space on HDD / SSD (32 bit) or 20 GB (64 bit)
- Video card with DirectX 9 and WDDM drivers or newer.

Microsoft is expected to reveal more information about Windows 8 at BUILD event, intended for developers, which will take place in September 2011.

Windows 8 will not replace Windows 7 but will be marketed in parallel. The launch of the OS will be in the summer of 2012. The RTM (Release to Manufacturer) version could be launched even in April 2012.