Windows 8 and its Perks.

Logo of Windows 8

Windows 8 is a version of Microsoft Windows (an operating system produced by Microsoft) for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablets, and home theatre PCs. Development of Windows 8 started before the release of its predecessor, Windows 7, in 2009. Its existence was first announced at CES 2011, and followed by the release of three pre-release versions from September 2011 to May 2012. The operating system was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012, and was released for general availability on October 26, 2012. Windows 8 uses version 6.2 of the Windows NT kernel.

Windows 8 introduces significant changes to the operating system's platform, primarily focused towards improving its user experience on mobile devices such as tablets to better compete with other mobile operating systems like Android and Apple's iOS. Windows 8 features a new touch user interface and shell based on Microsoft's "Metro" design language, featuring a new Start screen with a grid of dynamically updating tiles that represent applications. The Start screen replaces the "Start menu" of earlier Windows versions. There is a new app platform with an emphasis on touchscreen input, and the new Windows Store to obtain and/or purchase applications to run on the operating system.

In addition, Windows 8 takes advantage of new or emerging technologies like USB 3.0, 4Kn Advanced Format, near field communications, cloud computing, and the low-power ARM architecture. It includes new security features such as built-in antivirus capabilities, a new installation process optimized for digital distribution, and support for secure boot (a UEFI feature which allows operating systems to be digitally signed to prevent malware from altering the boot process). Synchronization of certain apps and settings between multiple devices is supported.

Windows 8 was released to mixed reception. Although reaction towards its performance improvements, security enhancements, and improved support for touchscreen devices was positive, the new user interface of the operating system has been widely criticized for being potentially confusing and having a steep learning curve (especially when used with a keyboard and mouse instead of a touchscreen). Despite these shortcomings, 60 million Windows 8 licenses have been sold through January 2013. This includes upgrades and sales to OEMs for new PCs.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Windows 8

Advantages / Pros:

1. Optimized for the touch screen

Windows 8, the interface dubbed Metro, is really optimized for touch interface with Windows Phone style form.

2. Supports ARM chip

Windows 8 supports devices using ARM chips infrastructure. It is expected to extend the reach of Windows 8 in the tablet arena, given that most currently available tablets using ARM chips.

3. Having a short boot time

Windows 8 Boot in the demo only lasts 8 seconds. A much shorter time than in previous versions of Windows booting.

4. Windows 8 does not require a PC upgrade

Microsoft says a computer that can run Windows 7 can also run Windows 8 so that the users do not need to upgrade your PC. According to Microsoft, Intel Atom processor and 1 GB of RAM is enough to run this OS

5. Windows Store app store

Windows 8 will have its own application store called Windows Store. Windows Store provides a wide range of applications that are optimized for Windows 8.

6. Supports NFC (Near Field Communications)

Windows 8 will support NFC, a technology that their role, among others for financial transactions digitally. Windows 8 tablet taking was likely to automatically include this feature.

Disadvantages / Cons:

1. Overlap between Metro UI and Aero UI.

Developers find the constant change that occurs between the tile-based Metro UI and glassy Aero UI. It is considered unreasonable and very confusing. Switching from Metro applications and desktop applications is very difficult.

2. There is no option to turn tiles into icons.

The smallest size of the tiles, zoom is still too big. When we install a lot of applications will then screen the Metro will look chaotic.

3. It is difficult to move between screens.

The absence of such a function Alt-Tab while working with the desktop and keyboard to switch from one app to another app might be a very difficult thing. Instead, on the Windows 8 Metro UI we cannot use the pointer or finder to put the screen on the left side and drag. It sounds so trivial, but problems will arise when we are working with many applications. There is no quick and easy way to switch between applications. If you move the mouse to the left then the icon will pops up. And if it is not right then we have to click several times, or try again.

4. Metro multitasking.

If my friend uses Metro application (for tablets) in Windows 8, the screen will display two applications are lined. For starters it would not be a big deal. But for advanced users, the ability of Metro to multitasking just for the two applications is a fatal weakness.

5. Metro.

Metro is able to work well on tablets but the UI is not very compatible when used on the desktop. Hard to do for my friend who use Notebook. So that by default Windows 8 could not boot to the Metro UI. In other words, Microsoft needs to provide kill-switch to turn off the Metro UI.

6. Flash content on the Tablet PC.

Apparently Microsoft is deliberately making Windows 8 cannot support Flash content on Tablet PC. The reason Microsoft is doing this is to save battery Tablet. It also can protect our privacy and enhance security Tablet. This is because in some applications, and other electronic devices, the use of Flash content even cause data damage or crash.

Verdict

Our definitive look at the final release of the new Windows

With Windows 8 Microsoft is making a huge bet, as CEO Steve Ballmer has said repeatedly. The visceral and sometimes vitriolic reaction to losing the fiddly Start menu has obscured the major advances in Windows 8. This is a next generation version of Windows, even before you get into Windows RT running on ARM chips.

We liked

Windows 8 is faster; you'll notice the difference on older PCs as much as on new machines. Battery life improves enough to be noticeable. And it's significantly more secure. That makes the low upgrade price a bargain (and given that you can upgrade from any version of Windows, you only need to pay more than the upgrade price if you're building a new PC from parts).

And then there are the features, like Storage Space and File History, or the new Windows Explorer, or better multimonitor support. Picture Password is a great compromise between security and convenience (and yes, it works with a mouse as well as a touchscreen). The charm bar, especially the handy icons on the Setting bar, put most of the tools you actually use to manage your PC at your fingertips. The cloud integration in Windows 8 is a game changer.

It's not just the Windows Store, that's going to make finding desktop apps easier as well as supplying all the games, Twitter clients, feed readers and tablet apps you could want. It's the way that Windows 8 understands what it means to be connected and makes great use of it to make your life easier and more convenient.

We disliked

The new experience and interface is far from universally popular and while every interface is a matter of personal taste, the range of opinions about the Windows 8 interface is extreme even for the world of technology. Actually, we dislike the vitriolic arguments about the interface and Start screen far more than the experience of switching from the desktop and back. What we miss is the unified search of documents and emails in the Windows 8 desktop that you could start from the Start menu (which Microsoft tells us very few people used). The Search charm offers some of this, but only for files and 'modern' apps (so not Outlook or OneNote; OneNote MX is searchable but only opens notebooks from SkyDrive) and you can't see the search next to an open document. A wider selection of apps may deal with this but it's one of the few places the desktop feels like a second class citizen.

Until Connected Standby devices come out, hibernate and hybrid sleep is the best option for getting good battery life on a notebook, but neither are on by default in Windows 8. Microsoft may expect OEMs to tweak this on new PCs but that doesn't mean hiding the options away is a good idea. We understand the plan to make Media Centre something you have to pay for given the success of Xbox for watching video as well as gaming and how few people use Media Centre; it's a shame not to see more improvements in Media Centre and this is only for the die-hard fans. If that's you, make sure you buy Windows 8 at the upgrade price because then you'll get Media Centre free. Incidentally, we don't know what the long-term price of Windows 8 will be after January 31, 2013 when the upgrade price expires.

Talking of things that should install automatically, why are the official apps like Mail, Messages, Calendar and the Bing apps the only ones that you get without having to go to the Windows Store? If you own apps that you've installed from the Store on another PC, we'd like to see the installation ask if you want to install them as well. Also missing; DVD playback software. That's to save the cost of the licence for all the PCs without a DVD drive - when you get a DVD drive it always comes with third-party software (and Media Center can play DVDs) – and this is part of how Microsoft is getting to the low upgrade cost, but it's never fun losing features.

Windows 8 Pro gets BitLocker disk encryption. Windows RT has disk encryption that's very like BitLocker but doesn't get the name because businesses can't manage it in the same way and might get confused. But plain Windows 8 doesn't get BitLocker. That's absurd; if Windows RT devices need to be encrypted (so that your toddler mashing their hands on your password screen five times will securely lock your managed-by-work tablet, by throwing away the encryption keys so you can unlock it with the recovery key, rather than wiping it like an iPad) then so do Windows 8 PCs.

Final verdict

This is the fastest, most secure, most battery friendly version of Windows 8.

It's also a bold move to head off the danger of Windows becoming irrelevant in an iPad future, by giving you the best of both worlds. You can have a slim, lightweight, cheap tablet with a tablet OS, that can also run Office and turn into a notebook when you add a keyboard. (We have to see the final version of Windows RT to see how well this works, but so far we're impressed.) Or you can have a slightly larger and pricier tablet with a tablet OS, that can also run Office and all your applications and turn into a notebook when you add a keyboard. Or you can get all of that in a notebook or a desktop, as long as you can deal with the touch-friendly interface.

Undeniably, Windows 8 shines most on a touchscreen system. Even older touch notebooks that were awkward to use with touch under Windows 7 give you a great experience and the latest tablets are fun and engaging to use (and features like rotation work immediately without you having to hunt down drivers). The mouse gestures mean that you can use Windows 8 without missing a touchscreen, but we really need edge gestures on trackpads and the Microsoft Touch Mouse to make it more natural.

But touchscreen or mouse, Windows 8, undeniably, shines. The final desktop look makes the transition between Metro and desktop less obvious. You can still stay substantially in the desktop if you want to and enjoy a faster, more secure version of Windows with a better browser that has longer battery life. But as more useful 'modern' apps come along, you'll find you split your time between the two experiences more and gestures could be critical to making that a natural combination. Keep an open mind, spend some time getting used to the charm bar and the Start screen and we defy you not to be impressed by Windows 8.

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"Windows Reimagined". All Things Digital. Dow Jones & Company. Retrieved October 21, 2012.

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Online Business: A New Age of Marketing

Definition

Online Business is like a word puzzle.

Online business definition is often assumed by internet marketers that all business is done online by using the internet as a medium for marketing products and services is to cover portions of the online business. So do not be surprised if many business or personal use of the Internet as a powerful medium to commercialize and promotion of their products in hopes that internet users can see and recognize until finally interested in using its products, it’s only a small example of the advantages of online business. Certainly reasonable if we are new to online business came questions like that because on the other hand many who abuse the Internet for fraud (Scam). But trust the other side in the Internet world is full of scams there are many who actually use their site to do business with ethical, honorable and elegant. 

For that you need to be selective in choosing sites that provide goods or services, it is advisable to choose a trusted site and have a great track record and at least you’ve got to understand Tips In Choosing Safe Online. So in this case the internet is just the media because the Internet itself is composed of thousands of pages of thousands-even millions of Web pages are able to provide information for Internet users. Which is often a question for prospective customers is how to transact safely on the internet, how the payment and the delivery. So it all depends on your level of trust and confidence of the sites visited and do not forget that every decision you take has a price.

Business world wherever you are all need a process of learning, hard work, perseverance, and patience. Surely it was not a little to build your business empire. But if you already have a belief that there is a chance to win it all. Start now... wake up and open your horizons wider and are confident that with willingness, perseverance and hard work we can shorten the time for success.

Is it hard to have an online business?

    

Another advantage we can get from this and do business online internet marketing is, we do not need to have a large investment, and we also do not need to spend capital to have a shop in the physical sense, namely the building. If necessary, when we already carry out basic things that I mentioned above, we can ask for help from someone more expert than us in the field of online business and internet marketing as our consultant. What we need to have if you want to do this online business and internet marketing start is, just have a computer and internet connection, about the place you could do at home first.

    

 People are finally much to know that using the internet to do business and doing internet marketing because it was very effective its market scope is not limited to local scope, but could be more widely at the global level. Finally, we also must determine when we will use additional tools as a media marketing if we’ve started our online business. As more people who know and believe with the advantages provided by the Internet, doing business online will be more manageable.

Just imagine, we have a lot to handle when doing business with the way offline, manage inventory, job management, even including its marketing and permissions. But, just like regular business, before starting we need to have some sort of marketing plan will give direction to where we will go in our business.

The advantage of having an online business

    

 In running an online business, the size of the benefits depends on the persistence and the optimization of websites and online media are used. Just as offline business opportunity, online business was also able to provide a sizable profit. Good profits in the form of material and indirect benefits such as an extensive network. Many online businesses are run by the community, since online businesses have several advantages not possessed by an offline business. Here are some of the advantages of online business is the main attraction of business seekers:

1. No need venture capital that are too big. In running an online business, capital is not the main thing for entrepreneurs. Because a lot of opportunities that can be run with little capital even without any capital at all, should the main capital is the network of computer facilities and internet

2. Reaching a broader market than offline stores. The second advantage of online business is, the extent of market reach. Because the Internet network, can help marketing your business to include all areas even to other countries. It takes only optimizing the use of SEO, so that your business is easy to find customers

3. Operational costs tend to be cheaper than offline business. Online business can be done from home, and do not require very high operating costs like offline business

4. Benefits both material and non-material. Material benefits obtained from an online business is no less great than offline business, online business because operating costs are likely to remain low. In addition to the increased non-material gains breadth of network, also greatly helped the development of an online business that is run

5. Working time online business that is not limited, even 24 hours nonstop. Because in running an online business that works is the system, so our duty as business owners just give follow-up at the request has been received the system

6. Ease of service provided to consumers, with online facilities that support. For example, for payments can be made by including your company’s account number, so that turnover can be a direct result you receive.

How to Start an Online Business

Business online and offline businesses, in principle, equal and identical. What distinguishes his only tools? Online business tools more sophisticated. Can reach a wider market with low cost. We know how many millions of people out there who search for products via the Internet and look for references to products via the Internet. Therein lies the potential for marketing / selling products online.

Which is often an obstacle when people want an online business or selling online is about the product. I wonder what that could be sold in cyberspace. I argue that in principle all goods / products both physical and nonphysical can be sold on the internet. My opinion is based on human needs are increasingly diverse and increasingly complex problems of life. We live in an era of super-fast with a high level of consumption growth. I am sure we all can read this opportunity. And the conclusion is that anyone can run a home business online understands such tools.

My Online Business: Everything about Bags Shop

                I started my Online Shop Last Year, It mainly sells different Bags. Right Now, I have different Types of Jansport Bags. Customers made transactions by asking me their order, I will check its availability, after the process and confirmation, and I will get his /her contact information for security purposes. I certainly use Down payment first/ Payment First Policy, I will give a confirmation order slip. Two to Three days are the maximum of the delivery of bags from the supplier to me. And then, I will give it to the customer personally. I have a Facebook Page and BlogSpot page for more information. My Goal by the end of this year, to have an official website for my shop. Also, to have more brands in my Shop. 

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/EverythingAboutBags 

http://everythingaboutbags.blogspot.com/