Everyone knows about Microsoft's new OS "Windows 8" which comes with many new features, enhancements and UI updates. It comes with a brand new Start Screen which has replaced the good old Start Menu. It comes with Office 2013 style Ribbon UI in Windows Explorer. It comes with new hot corner feature which helps you in accessing system tools quickly and easily by moving the mouse cursor to screen corners.
There are so many new features in Windows 8 and its possible that you
might have missed a few of them. Today we are going to share a free
e-book released by Microsoft which will help you in learning all new
features of Windows 8.
"Introducing Windows 8: An Overview for IT Professionals"
is a free Windows 8 e-book from Microsoft press which provides detailed
tutorials and instructions to find and use new features present in
Windows 8.
Following are some areas covered by this e-book:
- Hardware requirements
- Windows 8 editions or SKUs
- Using Start Screen and Metro apps
- Using Metro UI and hot corners
- New features of Windows Explorer (which is now known as File Explorer)
- New features of Task Manager
- Customizing and configuring Windows 8
- Client Hyper-V
- Windows PowerShell 3.0
- Networking enhancements
- Windows To Go feature
- Deploying Windows 8
- Group Policy and Security in Windows 8
- Developing Metro apps for Windows 8
- Windows 8 recovery (Refresh or Reset PC)
- Using Internet Explorer 10
Above are only a few selected points which we noticed while checking
the e-book. There are many other useful points given in this e-book
which will definitely help you in using and tweaking Windows 8.
The e-book also tells you why should you use Windows 8 and why is it
better than Windows 7 or other previous Windows OS? You'll also learn
many keyboard shortcuts and methods to use the new Start Screen and
other Metro UI features on a touch enabled device such as Tablet like a
professional.
The e-book also contains information about new Windows Server 2012 so if you are using the Server edition, you should also give a try to this e-book.
You can download this free e-book using following link:
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