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Top 10 Features of Windows 8
The disk maintenance tools that ships with Microsoft Windows have always been, at best, tolerable. Now there's a whole industry centered around archival storage systems and services, it's time Microsoft gave its consumer versions of Windows system file archiving appropriate for the 21st century.
Replacement Windows Backup, Windows File history 8 is the archive of files that were in Windows 7 - and it opens the way to a future post-PC for Microsoft.
In this series of 10 episodes, 26-year veteran tester Scott Fulton Windows guides you through the best features, faculties and functions of Windows 8.
See No. 10: Refresh and Reset
Ironically, the component that provides this functionality is actually part of Windows 7, and has been there since Windows XP. Windows did have a versioning system files for a few years. This is called Volume Shadow Copy, and it is a way for the system to maintain multiple backups of a file from different points in time. Windows 7 uses VSS (yes, this is the correct abbreviation ... go figure) to save some system files that may need to be recalled in the archives when you run a system restore - when you undo changes system, rolling them back to an earlier point in time.
Windows Backup can use this service ... kind of. I do not know anyone who does that, but once you save a file to an archive device, in Windows Explorer, you can right-click a file in that folder, click the Previous Versions tab, and to recall an earlier version of this file. Of course, if you go to restore an entire subdirectory full of documents, right-click and restoration of each in this way is not a great way to spend a weekend.
This is what a developer might call a service without a real interface. The actual user interface of this service was added to Windows 8, and yes, people will see that his inspiration probably comes from Mac OS. This is what we call history file, and replaces Windows Backup. The name change alone confuse some people, and perhaps a shortcut from Backup File history would help in the final edition.
The idea behind the story of the file is: If you continue to use Windows 8 Microsoft how would you use Windows 7, then you will have your important files related to personal libraries. Office documents will be in documents, files of digital cameras will be in pictures, your videos will be uploaded and transcribed in Videos. So it's silly to have to tell a different program of Windows files that are important to you if you've done it once already.
File history already knows what is important to you. If there are files in your library that do not need to save, you can make exceptions by clicking the Exclude Files and History to add exceptions in the box above.
This becomes important for the following reason: History File is designed to be something that runs continuously - not every week or overnight, 80 years as a backup style, but every hour. If the suggested use of the history file is for you to connect an external hard drive via USB, but you can also map a cloud-based Microsoft SkyDrive rise to a windows network share. History files instantly becomes a cloud backup service. For users of Windows Phone, it could mean anything you store your media libraries will be automatically synchronized and available for your phone.
He also raised the issue of bandwidth consumption. If you often copy videos from your camcorder (as opposed to just your phone), then you will want to use the file's history as a cloud backup service for this purpose. Unfortunately, this may affect your choices for backup media files smaller and documents every day - your choice of backup devices can be applied to all your files backed up. If you have decided to use an Archive Player as a Seagate FreeAgent video archive your camcorder, you will not be able to use the history file to save your documents and air.
Once again, the tool that comes with Windows is not perfect for all situations. Just as it was for the last three decades, leaving an opening for third party backup vendors - such as Acronis, for example - to build a market.
However, the evolution of Windows Backup File in history is important, as the nerve center of digital life people away from the PC. If Microsoft wants to maintain a grip on the lives of its customers every day and work, he needs to stake a strong claim on the services and tools that connect all the devices that are now at the nerve center.
This means that Microsoft needs a stronger presence of clouds. SkyDrive is nice, but it's not as powerful a product like Dropbox or Box.net. The story of the new file pointer is a compass in the exact direction that Windows needs to go: toward a service that transcends both PCs and peripherals. As I said before: No Windows Phone, no Windows PC. Just Windows.
Top 10 Features of Windows 8
The disk maintenance tools that ships with Microsoft Windows have always been, at best, tolerable. Now there's a whole industry centered around archival storage systems and services, it's time Microsoft gave its consumer versions of Windows system file archiving appropriate for the 21st century.
Replacement Windows Backup, Windows File history 8 is the archive of files that were in Windows 7 - and it opens the way to a future post-PC for Microsoft.
In this series of 10 episodes, 26-year veteran tester Scott Fulton Windows guides you through the best features, faculties and functions of Windows 8.
See No. 10: Refresh and Reset
Ironically, the component that provides this functionality is actually part of Windows 7, and has been there since Windows XP. Windows did have a versioning system files for a few years. This is called Volume Shadow Copy, and it is a way for the system to maintain multiple backups of a file from different points in time. Windows 7 uses VSS (yes, this is the correct abbreviation ... go figure) to save some system files that may need to be recalled in the archives when you run a system restore - when you undo changes system, rolling them back to an earlier point in time.
Windows Backup can use this service ... kind of. I do not know anyone who does that, but once you save a file to an archive device, in Windows Explorer, you can right-click a file in that folder, click the Previous Versions tab, and to recall an earlier version of this file. Of course, if you go to restore an entire subdirectory full of documents, right-click and restoration of each in this way is not a great way to spend a weekend.
This is what a developer might call a service without a real interface. The actual user interface of this service was added to Windows 8, and yes, people will see that his inspiration probably comes from Mac OS. This is what we call history file, and replaces Windows Backup. The name change alone confuse some people, and perhaps a shortcut from Backup File history would help in the final edition.
The idea behind the story of the file is: If you continue to use Windows 8 Microsoft how would you use Windows 7, then you will have your important files related to personal libraries. Office documents will be in documents, files of digital cameras will be in pictures, your videos will be uploaded and transcribed in Videos. So it's silly to have to tell a different program of Windows files that are important to you if you've done it once already.
File history already knows what is important to you. If there are files in your library that do not need to save, you can make exceptions by clicking the Exclude Files and History to add exceptions in the box above.
This becomes important for the following reason: History File is designed to be something that runs continuously - not every week or overnight, 80 years as a backup style, but every hour. If the suggested use of the history file is for you to connect an external hard drive via USB, but you can also map a cloud-based Microsoft SkyDrive rise to a windows network share. History files instantly becomes a cloud backup service. For users of Windows Phone, it could mean anything you store your media libraries will be automatically synchronized and available for your phone.
He also raised the issue of bandwidth consumption. If you often copy videos from your camcorder (as opposed to just your phone), then you will want to use the file's history as a cloud backup service for this purpose. Unfortunately, this may affect your choices for backup media files smaller and documents every day - your choice of backup devices can be applied to all your files backed up. If you have decided to use an Archive Player as a Seagate FreeAgent video archive your camcorder, you will not be able to use the history file to save your documents and air.
Once again, the tool that comes with Windows is not perfect for all situations. Just as it was for the last three decades, leaving an opening for third party backup vendors - such as Acronis, for example - to build a market.
However, the evolution of Windows Backup File in history is important, as the nerve center of digital life people away from the PC. If Microsoft wants to maintain a grip on the lives of its customers every day and work, he needs to stake a strong claim on the services and tools that connect all the devices that are now at the nerve center.
This means that Microsoft needs a stronger presence of clouds. SkyDrive is nice, but it's not as powerful a product like Dropbox or Box.net. The story of the new file pointer is a compass in the exact direction that Windows needs to go: toward a service that transcends both PCs and peripherals. As I said before: No Windows Phone, no Windows PC. Just Windows.
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