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You can either log on to Windows 8 with a local/domain account or with a Microsoft account. Windows Live accounts are now called Microsoft accounts. You've probably heard that Microsoft gave up the Windows Live brand. Reflecting on your comments on the Start screen Microsoft account integration ^ CcheДesigning for Metro style and the desktop The main point about Metro is that its user interface and the corresponding apps are optimized for touch screens. There is no doubt that the new Metro UI, which some of us know already from Windows Phone, is the most prominent and controversial enhancement. Windows 8 - Graphics acceleration Metro ^ Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics Microsoft also optimized the redrawing of portions of the screen, which improves performance and increases battery life. Windows 8 can divide graphics calculation efficiently between CPU and GPU. They didn't explicitly mention graphics performance, but if Microsoft's claims are correct, Windows 8 will boost the speed of many graphics applications. In my previous post, I linked to a PCWorld test that confirms that Windows 8 is significantly faster than Windows 7. Windows 8 вЂ“ Find a printer Graphics hardware acceleration ^

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The overall footprint of so-called inbox drivers will be significantly reduced in Windows 8 and, thanks to the print class driver framework, many printers (even those that have not yet been designed) will work without the need to install a driver. Printer applications can no longer be a part of the driver, and this will probably make it easier to avoid their installation. What I like most is that Microsoft appears to be determined to ensure that printer manufacturers don't blow up Windows unnecessarily with often useless software. Printing should just work without the need to take care of drivers and settings. Microsoft improved many things in Windows 8 printing, but most of these improvements happen under the hood and users probably won't notice them much.

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I find it amazing that so many people still prefer paper to transport information, but I guess that won't change until Windows 10 or 11. Contrary to the Previous Versions feature of Windows 7, you can (and you have to) use a second drive for your backups. The nicest feature of File History is that you can access backups right at the source location in Windows Explorer through an icon in the new Windows Explorer ribbon.

))ДЄ better backup tool for Windows is long overdue. (I wouldn't insist that it is just the other way around, as Paul Thurrott did, because I value my health. Of course, as usual, Apple fans will now claim that, with File History, Microsoft just copied another Mac feature, but that is alright with me. The first feature the Mac user usually then puts forward is Time Machine.