Windows 8: The Thread

[Jayayess1190]

Native USB 3.0 Support Coming to Windows 8

Windows 8 will be bringing with it native support for USB 3.0 controllers, writes Microsoft's Dennis Flanagan, Director of Program Management for the Devices and Networking Group. This is in contrast to previous versions of Windows, which continue to require separate drivers for USB 3.0 controllers.

This news shouldn't be surprising - many mid and high-end laptops, desktops, and motherboards support USB 3.0 today, and both AMD and Intel are or will soon be integrating USB 3.0 support into their chipsets (AMD's A75 chipset, used with Socket F1 Llano CPUs, includes it already, and Intel's Ivy Bridge will include it next year). USB 3.0 storage devices in particular are becoming increasingly available and affordable, so it only makes sense that Microsoft would want to make support for USB 3.0 controllers as seamless as support for 1.1 and 2.0 controllers is now.

What's more interesting is how Microsoft is implementing USB 3.0 in Windows 8 - rather than adding the support on top of the current 1.1 and 2.0 software stack (which, as Flanagan notes, has its roots in Windows 95), Microsoft's engineers have chosen to write an entirely new software stack for USB 3.0, retaining the older stack for 1.1 and 2.0 devices separately.

For an in-depth look at some of Microsoft's thought processes and testing procedures, read the full post on the Building Windows 8 blog.

[coldmack]

Is there any info on how ARM support is going to work? Will it be similar to how Windows currently works, or will it move to like the Windows Phone model(i.e. you can only have it on devices that came with it from the factory so to speak). I ask because I just recently purchased the 32gb Touchpad during the fire sale that is going on and would be very curious how Window 8 for ARM is going to work.

[Jayayess1190]

Improving our file management basics: copy, move, rename, and delete

[Hungry Man]

Well that's nice at least.

[yukinok25]

Native USB 3.0 Support Coming to Windows 8

Improving our file management basics: copy, move, rename, and delete

Now, this are GOOD news!

[BlazeGaj]

That sounds great. It's nice they update us with new stuff.

[Mats]

I wonder what the up button haters will say if that button will stay in the finished version..

[Bullit]

The improving file management doesn't improves much unfortunately. When Windows 8 developers start to think about interface consistency? In file move conflict resolution they put checkboxes instead of makings us be able to select by shift/ctrl ! So if i want to select 40 of 60 to delete i will have to put a check in 40 of them?

[BlazeGaj]

That's a lot of conflict.


But, I see the problem another would be to enlarge both images to compare which the user wants to keep.



Also the color should have been grey for pause not yellow.(it's not really a issue but...)

[booboo12]

The improving file management doesn't improves much unfortunately. When Windows 8 developers start to think about interface consistency? In file move conflict resolution they put checkboxes instead of makings us be able to select by shift/ctrl ! So if i want to select 40 of 60 to delete i will have to put a check in 40 of them?

There's actually a dialog before that one that works like 7 and Vista's. The video explains it.

You're right though, the checkbox window is a mess...they need to rework that ASAP.