For weeks now, initial plans for Windows 8 have been leaked onto the Internet and many technology enthusiasts are already trying to find out what's new in the next version of Microsoft Windows.
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A feature that caught my attention today comes from this post at winrumors. It seems that Windows 8 Build 7850.0.winmain_win8m1.100922-1508 comes with very interesting features; one of them is Portable Workspace, which according to the post, Microsoft may be targeting enterprise customers, allowing them to create a Portable Workspace on an external USB storage device from which to load Windows. In the eyes of a regular Windows user, this may not be a big deal, but there could be a variety of scenarios where it can be very useful, and it could also go down well with IT professionals, as it could help work more efficiently by booting up a copy of Windows 8 much faster, fixing existing Windows issues on a local computer, and accessing one's documents and workspace from a workstation in a more secure manner. Also, according to the post, this feature was found to require no less than 16GB of free space on the external storage device.
There isn't much information yet about how Portable Workspace will ultimately work or what limitations it will have. From what we can see now, this feature is nothing new in the technology world. We've seen other operating systems do virtually the same thing. One example is the many flavors of Linux live CDs that anyone can download and boot into an operating system without making any changes to the current computer configuration. Many of us have used the same Linux live CD at some point to diagnose existing problems on a Windows machine. There are workarounds today to boot into Windows in a similar way, but now Microsoft is really getting into the game.
Source and image via winrumors
