ANCHETA, JEANIEBELLE M.

BAUTISTA, HANNAH R.
BINONGCAL, ROCHELLE G.

HISTORY

Windows

8 development started before windows 7 had

shipped in 2009. At the consumer electronics show in
january 2011, it was announced that the next version of
windows would add support for ARM system-onchips alongside the existing x86 processors produced by
vendors, especially AMD and Intel.

HISTORY CON

Windows division president Steven Sinofsky demonstrated an early build of the port

on prototype devices, while Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the company's
goal for windows to be "be everywhere on every kind of device without
compromise." details also began to surface about a new application framework for
windows 8 codenamed "jupiter", which would be used to make "immersive"
applications using XAML (similarly to windows phone and silverlight) that could be
distributed via a new packaging system and a rumoured application store.

EDITIONS

WINDOWS 8
WINDOWS 8 PRO
WINDOWS 8 ENTERPRISE
WINDOWS 8 RT

FEATURES

THE TRANSITION FROMWINDOWS 7TOWINDOWS 8INTRODUCED A NUMBER OF NEW FEATURES

ACROSS VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE OPERATING SYSTEM. AMONG THESE INCLUDED A GREATER FOCUS ON
OPTIMIZING THE OPERATING SYSTEM FORTOUCHSCREEN-BASED DEVICES (SUCH ASTABLETS) AND
CLOUD COMPUTING.

LANGUAGE AND STANDARDS SUPPORT

WINDOWS STORE

- DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION PLATFORM BUILT INTO WINDOWS 8, WHICH IN

A MANNER SIMILAR TOAPPLE'SAPP STOREANDGOOGLE PLAY,
ALLOWS FOR THE DISTRIBUTION AND PURCHASE OF APPS DESIGNED
FOR WINDOWS 8.

SHELL AND USER INTERFACE

- WINDOWS 8 FEATURES A REDESIGNED USER INTERFACE BUILT UPON THE
METRO DESIGN LANGUAGE,[13]WITH OPTIMIZATIONS FORTOUCHSCREENS.

- START SCREEN
- THIS IS THE MOST EXCITING PART OF THE WINDOWS 8

MEMORY MANAGEMENT

Each process on 32-bit microsoft windows has its own virtual address
space that enables addressing up to 4 gigabytes of memory. Each
process on 64-bit windows has a virtual address space of 8 terabytes.
All threads of a process can access its virtual address space. However,
threads cannot access memory that belongs to another process, which
protects a process from being corrupted by another process.

DEVICE MANAGEMENT

THE I/O SYSTEM IN WINDOWS NT AND ITS NETWORKING DESCENDENT

WAS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE FOLLOWING:
MULTIPLE INSTALLABLE FILE SYSTEMS INCLUDING FAT, CDFS, AND
NTFS
SERVICES TO MAKE DEVICE-DRIVER DEVELOPMENT AS EASY AS
POSSIBLE YET WORKABLE ON MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEMS
ABILITY FOR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS TO ADD DRIVERS TO THE
SYSTEM OR REMOVE THEM FROM THE SYSTEM DYNAMICALLY
FAST I/O PROCESSING WHILE ALLOWING DRIVERS TO BE WRITTEN
IN HIGH-LEVEL LANGUAGE
MAPPED FILE I/O CAPABILITIES FOR IMAGE ACTIVATION, FILE
CACHING, AND APPLICATION USE

FILE MANAGEMENT
FILE SYSTEMS SUPPORTED
FILE ALLOCATION TABLE (FAT) FROM WINDOWS 95, MS-DOS,
AND OS/2
W2K FILE SYSTEM (NTFS)

NTFS KEY FEATURES

RECOVERABILITY
USES TRANSACTION PROCESSING MODEL TO RECONSTRUCT
DISK VOLUMES AFTER FAILURES
USES REDUNDANT STORAGE FOR CRITICAL SYSTEM DATA

PROCESS MANAGEMENT
WINDOWS 8 OPERATING SYSTEM SERVICESALLOWS CREATION OF NEW PROCESSES IN RESPONSE TO A

SYSTEM CALL. IT ALLOWS USERS TO CREATE MULTIPLE NUMBERS OF PROCESSES WITH DEFAULT
ATTRIBUTES AND IDENTIFIERS. ANY PROCESS CANNOT BE STARTED BY ITS OWN BUT REQUIRE SYSTEM
CALLING. WITH THE CREATION OF A NEW PROCESS , PROCESS CONTROL BLOCK IS TAKEN FROM THE MAIN
MEMORY THAT PROVIDES THE PARAMETER ABOUT THE RUNNING PROCESS LIKE PROCESS NAME,
PROCESS PRIORITY, PROCESS STATE, CPU REGISTERS ETC. YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED THAT SOME
PROCESSES WILL NOT WORK BECAUSE OF WRONG ID OR NO SPACE FOR PROCESS CONTROL BLOCK
CALLING.

CONT
AS EXPLAINED ABOVE THAT SOME PROCESSES ARE SUSPENDED FROM MAIN MEMORY BECAUSE OF LESS
MEMORY SPACE. THESE ALL SUSPENDED PROCESSES ARE PUT UNDER THE SUSPENDED LIST AND LATER
OPERATING SYSTEM RESUME COMMAND PROVIDES RESUMING OF SUSPENDED PROCESSES. EVEN WE
CAN ALSO DELAY THE EXECUTION OF PROCESSES BY CHANGING THE PRIORITY STATE OF CURRENTLY
RUNNING PROCESSES.

POINT OF VIEW
WINDOWS 8 IS A VERY HIGH TECHNOLOGY OPERATING SYSTEM THAT IS WIDELY USED FOR GADGETS.
THIS HAS ADVANCED FEATURES THAT IS BEST FIT FOR TOUCH SCREEN GADGETS.
IT ALSO HAS A VERY NICE INTERFACE THAT IS EYE CATCHY , UPON USING WINDOWS 8 WE DISCOVERED
THAT THE RUNTIME PROCESSING IS MUCH FASTER THAN THE OTHER VERSIONS WELL ITS ONE OF ITS
FEATURES ANYWAY.