Windows 8 Development Guide (5) related features of Windows 8

 

1. Win8 System Requirements
Microsoft officially announced that Win8 would not have higher requirements for system resources than win7, and he did.
CPU at or higher than 1.0 GHz
Memory greater than or equal to 1 GB (32-bit), 2 GB memory (64-bit)
Hard drive larger than or equal to 16 GB (32 bits), 20 GB (64 bits)
Devices with wddm1.0 or higher drivers that support directx9.0 or higher

 

Metro Interface

 

Traditional desktop

 

 

2. Related device management
When a specific device is connected to a Win8 device, Win8 can start the corresponding app for running. For example, after a camera is connected, the camera app is automatically run. Of course, this can be customized.
Equipment manufacturers can integrate specific applications, drivers, and sensors.

3. Security
All Metro style apps run in their own process space, specifying the memory space they can use, the peripherals they can access, and the resources they can access. Each app has corresponding permission management. This is similar to Android and IOS.
If the app is written using HTML5 + JavaScript, its security policy runs the same as that of the web script.
Win8 provides a set of very convenient encryption and decryption APIs for developers to use.
Win8's UEFI secure startup technology can prevent malicious intrusion. Of course, this practice seems to have been greatly opposed in the open-source community, but to some extent, it ensures Win8 security. The figure below is from Win8 home, which describes the process for enabling Win8 security. In the second stage of traditional startup, the loader of any OS can be changed to a loader that requires security verification.

4. Mobile Management

IT administrators can put the Win8 system of each user in a USB flash drive, which contains various important file information, system preference settings, and the metro style app has been set. You can take your system to any place, as long as you start from the USB flash disk. Imagine a system with a USB flash drive. It can remember my Windows Settings, account information, and so on, which is very convenient.

5. Data Management

Win8 provides app locker tools to lock corresponding data or metro style apps, which can fully protect data security and privacy.
Secure startup technology. Win8 writes the verification process on a TPM chip to fully ensure data security.

 

6. Windows 8 cloud computing support

The Azure for Windows 8 development tool helps developers use Microsoft's cloud service platform azure resources to create a metro-style Windows 8 application. The new development tool mainly contains four core contents, check and install the dependency checker for required components, cloud service architecture for pushing messages for Windows 8 new features, Dev 11 tool for creating Metro-style UI, and azure cloud service for publishing and pushing messages project templates and two examples of how to use other Windows azure features.

Http://watwindows8.codeplex.com/

 

 

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