Microsoft Releases Win8 "Inside" Crisis Innovation Subverts Tradition

At 9:00 am on September 13th, US Pacific Time, Steven Sinofsky, Director of Microsoft Windows, demonstrated Windows 8 for developers and global IT industry at this BUILD conference. Beta highlight feature.

Sinofsky released Windows 8, words and deeds have made us pleasantly surprised, first of all to our surprise he mentioned the Windows 8 and Windows 7 SP1 memory footprint on contrast. At the beginning, Sinowski showed us several sets of Windows 7 numbers on Keynote, of which Win7 users have reached 450 million, covering more than Windows XP.

And Windows 8 has two highlights worthy of our attention:

1. Backward compatible with Windows 7;

2.Win8 rebuild, subverting traditional Windows

So when Windows 8 is running, is the memory usage larger than Windows 7 SP1? From the experience of Microsoft in the operating system over the years, it seems that the newer system is more bloated.

Is Windows 8 the same? Unfortunately, this time we guessed wrong - running Win8 memory is 281MB, Win7 SP1 is 403MB. Win8, re-written the Windows operating system's "bloated" record.
Foreign Information Editor's Notes: Win8 and Win7 SP1 Memory Usage

Before the BUILD conference, Microsoft officially opened a blog for Windows 8, and Windows developers announced Win8 features. People who care about Windows 8 Know that Microsoft Win8 integrates Hyper-V virtual functions, the resource manager will use the Ribbon interface, support native USB3.0, support WP7 application installation … … of course the biggest improvement is that the boot speed is only 8 seconds!

On June 2 this year, the Microsoft D9 conference unveiled the Windows 8 milestone for the first time. The difference between the Windows and Windows traditions is that Win8 uses the WP7 Metro interface, suggesting that Windows 8 supports touch and will also be used for touch screen devices. , such as a tablet.

At the D9 conference, Microsoft revealed that two applications were designed for Windows 8, the first being a program running on a traditional desktop, and the other being a virtual mobile application based on HTML5 and JavaScript. But the operating environment of both - or rather the entire operating system - supports touch screen operations. Both applications still support mouse and keyboard operations, but also support multiple virtual keyboards.