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Chapter 2: Installing and Upgrading to dows 8

Win-That Was Then, This Is Now: How Setup Has Changed

Using the Windows 8 Web Installer Advanced Setup: Using the Old-School Installer

Post-Setup: Now What?

Advanced Windows 8 Setup ations

Configur-Summary

Chapter 3: Metro: The New User Experience

Times They Are A-Changin’: The New Windows Shell

Lock Screen: A New Way to Sign In Start Screen: A New User Experience for Modern Apps

Using the System-Wide Metro User Experiences

Where New Meets Old: Metro

Features You Get in the Desktop, Too Managing Files and Folders

Managing Classic Windows tions

Applica-To the Cloud: Using the SkyDrive Desktop App

Summary

Chapter 5: Make It Yours: Personalizing dows 8

Win-Customizing Metro

Customizing Settings and Settings Sync

Customizing the Desktop

Power User Customization Tips and Tricks

Launching Windows Store

Using Windows Store

Configuring Accounts and ces

Preferen-Summary

Chapter 7: Browsing the Web with Internet plorer 10

Ex-Two Browsers, One Brain: standing Internet Explorer 10

Under-Internet Explorer 10 for Metro

Using the Desktop Version of Internet Explorer 10

Productiv-Mail

Calendar

Messaging

SkyDrive

Windows Reader

The Bing Apps

Microsoft Office Comes to Windows Sort Of

Chapter 10: Xbox Games with Windows 8

Games and the Metro Environment Finding and Acquiring Games for Windows 8

Finding and Acquiring Desktop Games

Xbox LIVE and Windows 8

Summary

Chapter 11: Storage, Backup, and Recovery

Storage Basics: NTFS Today, ReFS Tomorrow

Storage Spaces

File History

Using the Windows 8 Recovery Tools Accessing System Image Backup and Recovery Functionality with Windows Backup

What’s Missing: Cloud Backup Summary

Chapter 12: Accounts and Security

User Accounts

Security and Windows 8: Keeping Your PC Safe

Summary

Chapter 13: Networking and Connectivity

What Was Old Is New Again

Connecting to and Managing Wired and Wireless Networks

Connecting to Cellular Data works

Net-Sharing Files, Media, and Printers at Home with HomeGroup

Summary

Chapter 14: Windows 8 for Business

Domain Join and Group Policy Disk Encryption

Chapter 1 Choosing Windows 8 Versions, PCs and Devices,

• Choosing a machine type

• New Windows 8 hardware capabilities

to look for

With Windows 8, you suddenly have a lot of cisions to make Fortunately, Microsoft has sim-plified the product lineup such that there are ba-sically just two retail versions of Windows 8 thatupgraders need to think about, plus a third ver-sion, called Windows RT, that will be sold onlywith new ARM-based PCs and devices.

de-But choosing a Windows version is only thestart of the decision-making process Beyondthat, you have various machine types to choosefrom, including not just stalwart desktop PCs andlaptops, but also new leading-edge all-in-ones,Ultrabooks, tablets, and hybrid PCs

And within those different classes of machinesare a variety of new hardware capabilities thatwork in tandem with Windows 8 to provide thebest computing experience yet Of course, gettingthere will require you to do a bit of homeworkfirst And that’s where this chapter comes in

Picking a Windows 8 Product Edition

Over the past decade, Microsoft has become volved in a controversy of its own making And

in-no, we’re not talking about the antitrust issuesthat also dogged the software giant for much ofthe past decade Instead, we’re referring to itspredilection for confusing users with too manyproduct editions That is, rather than makeproducts called Windows and Office, Microsoftmakes many product editions of each one, each

of which comes with some almost arbitrary set ofcapabilities and features and, of course, individu-

al price points

The decision to diversify its product lineupswasn’t made overnight, but it was made for allthe wrong reasons The thing is, Microsoft hadresearch to fall back on that showed that userswould generally spend more money on a sup-posedly premium version of a product And themore versions they had, the studies suggested, thebetter

To understand how the plan to diversify dows quickly ran amok, consider what it waslike when Windows XP debuted back in 2001

Win-At first, it was the simplest product lineup of all

time, with a Windows XP Home Edition aimed

at, yes, the home market, and a Professional tion that was aimed at businesses but also thosewho wanted every single possible capability.And sure enough, the research paid off Evenconsumers preferred the more expensive XP Pro-fessional edition and would pay extra while con-figuring a PC to get that version of the OS

Edi-So then Microsoft went off the rails

First, the company expanded the XP lineupwith additional product editions that filled certainniches, including XP Tablet PC Edition (for Tab-let PCs) and Media Center Edition (for so-calledmedia center PCs), which were aimed at the liv-ing room Then it added a 64-bit version, XP Pro-fessional x64, and a version for emerging marketscalled XP Starter Edition There were “N” edi-tions for the European market and “K” versionsfor the Korean market, both necessitated by anti-trust action And there was an Itanium version forIntel’s then high-end (and now dead) 64-bit plat-form

By the time Windows Vista shipped in 2006, itwas hard to tell how many product editions werereally available since most were also available inseparate 32-bit and 64-bit (x64) versions Count-ing them all, there were almost 20!

And Microsoft not only confused customerswith packaging, but it also increased the ways inwhich users could purchase the product Therewere the not-quite-retail versions of the software,

called OEM versions, which were technically

supposed to sell only to PC makers, but werewidely available online And there was a new op-tion called Windows Anytime Upgrade, which letyou upgrade in-place from one version of Vista toanother

Windows 7 arrived in 2009 with just a slightlysimplified product lineup This time around, the32-bit and 64-bit (x64) versions of each editionwere always bundled together, thankfully Andwhile there were just about as many mainstreamversions of the product as with Vista, the choicewas a lot simpler

It boiled down to this: Most low-end netbookcomputers were bundled with a cut-rate version

of Windows 7 called Starter Edition (which, inthis version, graduated from emerging markets).Home PCs would typically come with Windows

7 Home Premium, and business PCs would ically come with Windows 7 Professional If youwanted the version that had it all, you’d get Win-dows 7 Ultimate But really, most people simplyhad to choose between Windows 7 Home Premi-

typ-um and Professional It wasn’t as hard as itlooked

With Windows 8, Microsoft has finally goneback to its roots And while it is still deliveringmultiple product editions in this release, thechoices are fewer and far more easily managed

Introducing the Windows 8 Product Editions

Internally, the entry level Windows 8version is actually called Windows 8Core This name makes a lot of sense to

us, and is how Microsoft should market

it, we think

With Windows 8, Microsoft is offering just threemainstream product editions, though choosingamong them is easier than it’s been since 2001.Two of the three versions, called Windows 8 andWindows 8 Pro, run on traditional PCs that utilizethe same Intel/Intel-compatible x86/x64 pro-cessor architecture that has provided the back-bone of our PCs for decades The third, calledWindows RT, is being made available only withnew PCs and tablets that run on the ARM pro-cessor architecture

Aside from the underlying architecture, dows 8 and Windows RT are roughly compar-able, with some key differences we’ll note in abit That is, the feature sets are very similar Win-dows 8 Pro is a superset of Windows 8, offeringevery single feature in Windows 8 plus severalunique features

Win-And roughly speaking, Windows 8 is aimed

at consumers—much like Windows XP Home

was—and Windows 8 Pro is aimed at businessesand enthusiasts just like XP Professional was.This makes picking a product somewhat easy,assuming you understand the differences betweenIntel-compatible PCs and ARM-based devices.(To more easily differentiate these platforms, we

tend to refer to Intel-compatible machines as PCs and ARM-based machines as devices, though to

be fair the differences are getting somewhatsubtle So your first choice is to pick a PC or adevice

If you’re upgrading or clean installing dows 8 on an existing PC, you will be choosingbetween Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro It’s thatsimple

Win-If you’re buying a new PC, that also means,generally, that you will choose between Windows

8 and Windows 8 Pro But if you’re buying anew tablet, you’ll need to choose among all three:Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro, and Windows RT.And your choice will be limited by device type:Some models will only be available with an Intel-

compatible chipset—where you can choosebetween Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro—andsome will come only with an ARM chipset,where your only choice is Windows RT.

We’ll discuss some of these differences later

in the chapter, but the big picture goes like this:Windows RT is a new, unproven product It runsonly on ARM-based platforms that could enablethinner and lighter iPad-like tablets that may getbetter battery life than Intel-compatible products.(That tale has yet to be told.) Windows RT isroughly comparable to the base version of Win-dows 8, but is lacking one very critical feature: It

is not compatible with any existing Windows plications or utilities And it’s missing two inter-esting and potentially useful features, WindowsMedia Player and Storage Spaces On the flipside, Windows RT offers a few unique features ofits own: device encryption, and free, bundled ver-sions of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, andOneNote These applications are based on Office

ap-2013 and, like Windows RT, are branded with the

RT name (for example, Word RT)

We mentioned that there were three stream Windows 8 editions As it turns out, there

main-are others Microsoft is selling a version called,yep, Windows 8 Starter, in emerging marketsonly, so we can safely ignore that release And aWindows 8 Enterprise edition is provided only toMicrosoft’s corporate customers that sign up for avolume licensing program called Software Assur-ance This version of Windows 8 is in fact quiteinteresting as it offers some additional and usefulfeatures that are now available in Windows 8 orWindows 8 Pro But since you can’t actually ac-quire it normally, it’s also something we won’t befocusing on too much here

To make the right choice, then, you’ll need

to understand the individual differences betweeneach mainstream Windows 8 version And you’llneed to understand the pros and cons of the vari-ous hardware features you’ll find in Intel-com-patible PCs and ARM-based devices

First, we’ll discuss the software differences

Understanding the Differences Between the

Product Editions

There are various ways to present this kind of formation, but we find that tables, logically di-vided by category, are easy on the eyes and mind.Tables 1-1 through 1-10 show how the main-stream product editions stack up

in-Table 1-1:Hardware Capabilities

People Yes Yes Yes

Xbox

Bing Sports Yes Yes YesBing Travel Yes Yes YesBing Weather Yes Yes Yes

Internet

Ex-plorer 10

Metro

Touch and

Thumb

key-board

broad-band features Yes Yes Yes

* Note that some apps may not be preinstalled but can be downloaded from Windows Store Table 1-4: Desktop Features

Task Manager Yes Yes YesMicrosoft

Word, Excel,

PowerPoint,

OneNote

Yes

Table 1-5: Digital Media Features

Dolby Digital

AAC decoder Yes Yes Yes

H.264

Table 1-6: File and Storage Features

Storage

File History Yes Yes YesISO and VHD

Dynamic

volume

sup-port

Table 1-7: Account and Security Features Feature Windows 8 Windows 8 Pro Windows RT

Microsoft

Picture

Secure Boot Yes Yes YesDevice en-

Family

Table 1-8: Reliability Features

Push Button

Connected

Table 1-9: Power User Features

Table 1-10: Business Features

Group Policy Yes

Offline Files Yes

Choosing Between Windows 8 and Windows 8

Pro

Now that you are armed with the information

in the previous tables, choosing between dows 8 and Windows 8 Pro should be relativelystraightforward You just need to consider wheth-

Win-er you need any of the following Pro-only tures If you do, then you should get Windows 8Pro

fea-• Upgrades from Windows 7

Profession-al, Ultimate: If you intend to perform an

in-place upgrade with an existing PC andare currently running Windows 7 Profes-sional or Ultimate, you will need to pur-chase Windows 8 Pro

• BitLocker and BitLocker To Go:

These features provide full-disk tion for fixed and removable disks, re-spectively, providing protection for yourdata even when the drive is removed andaccessed from elsewhere

encryp-• Client Hyper-V: Microsoft’s

server-based virtualization solution makes itsway to the Windows client for the firsttime, providing a powerful, hypervisor-based platform for creating and man-aging virtual machines

• Boot from VHD: This new capability

al-lows you to create a virtual hard disk, orVHD, in Client Hyper-V and then boot

your physical PC from this disk filerather than from a physical disk.

• Domain join: If you need to sign in to

an Active Directory-based domain withWindows 8, you will need Windows 8Pro (or Enterprise)

• Encrypting File System: EFS is

some-what de-emphasized in Windows 8thanks to BitLocker and BitLocker To

Go, but it provides a way to encrypt vidual drives, folders, or even files, pro-tecting them from being accessed extern-ally should the drive be removed fromyour PC

indi-• Group Policy: Microsoft’s policy-based

management technology requires an ive Directory domain and thus Windows

Act-8 Pro

• Remote Desktop (host): While any

Windows 8 PC or device can use a mote Desktop client to remotely accessother PCs or servers, only Windows 8

Re-Pro can host such a session, allowing you

or others to remotely access your ownPC

CROSSREF All of the

aforemen-tioned features are discussed in Chapter14

• Windows Media Center: For a small

fee, Windows 8 Pro users can purchaseWindows Media Center, a feature thatused to be included in higher-end ver-sions of Windows This feature is notavailable to Windows 8 (or Windows RTfor that matter) And it hasn’t been up-graded since Windows 7 shipped

And that’s it It really hasn’t been this easy

to choose between Windows product editions inover a decade

What’s Unique in Windows 8 Enterprise?

Windows 8 Enterprise is a superset of Windows

8 Pro That is, it includes all of the features andcapabilities in Windows 8 Pro plus provides someunique new features of its own These include:

• Windows To Go: This very interesting

feature lets you install Windows 8 oncertain high-performance USB memorysticks, providing a highly portable Win-dows environment that can include all

of your personal data, settings, and stalled Metro-style apps and desktop ap-plications

in-• Metro-style app deployment:

Corpora-tions can bypass the normal requirementthat all Metro-style apps must be stored,downloaded, and installed from the Win-dows Store This capability, called side-loading, lets these businesses deployMetro-style apps within their own envir-onments securely

• DirectAccess: A modern alternative to

a VPN (virtual private network), ectAccess lets remote users seamlesslyaccess corporate network resourceswithout dealing with the hassles common

Dir-to VPN solutions

• BranchCache: Aimed at distributed

cor-porations, BranchCache lets servers andusers’ PCs in branch offices cache files,websites, and other content, so that it isnot repeatedly and expensively down-loaded across the WAN (wide area net-work) by different users in the same loc-ation

• AppLocker: This feature provides white

list and black list capabilities to controlwhich files and applications that users orgroups are allowed to run

• VDI improvements: Windows 8

Enter-prise also includes improvements to VDI(virtual desktop infrastructure), a way ofvirtualizing Windows client installs in a