REDMOND, Wash. – June 1, 2011 – Today, at the D9 Conference, we demonstrated the next generation of Windows, internally code-named “Windows 8,” for the first time. Windows 8 is a reimagining of Windows, from the chip to the interface. A Windows 8-based PC is really a new kind of device, one that scales from touch-only small screens through to large screens, with or without a keyboard and mouse.

The Windows Developer Preview is a pre-beta version of Windows 8 for developers. These downloads include prerelease software that may change without notice. The software is provided as is, and you bear the risk of using it. It may not be stable, operate correctly or work the way the final version of the software will. It should not be used in a production environment. The features and functionality in the prerelease software may not appear [...]

Thinking about sharing your data at home with other home users? Worried a about losing years of photos, documents and data? Need a centralized location for all your files? Perhaps it’s time you considered a NAS (network attached storage) device. What Are The Advantages of NAS? Some advantages of NAS are: Users running different types of machines (PC, Apple iMac, etc.) and running different types of operating systems (Windows, Unix, Mac OS, etc.) can share [...]

Overview FreeNAS 7 provided an embedded .img file which the end user was able to write a device under Windows using the physdiskwrite software. With the introduction of FreeNAS 8, the developers have moved away from the uncompressed .img embedded image to the compressed .xz image. This new image file type does not have a direct way to write under Windows. This work instruction was developed under Microsoft Windows XP SP3 and used a USB [...]