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2024 1

  1. Updating Windows 8 for General Availability

2012 17

  1. Optimizing picture password security
  2. Building the next generation file system for Windows: ReFS
  3. Virtualizing storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency
  4. Simplifying printing in Windows 8
  5. Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics
  6. Internet Explorer Performance Lab: reliably measuring browser performance
  7. FAQ - DVD playback and Windows Media Center in Windows 8
  8. Redesigning chkdsk and the new NTFS health model
  9. Readying Metro style apps for launch
  10. Keeping your family safer with Windows 8
  11. Designing for PCs that boot faster than ever before
  12. Delivering the Windows 8 Release Preview
  13. Protecting user files with File History
  14. Designing the Windows 8 touch keyboard
  15. Using your feedback to make Narrator work better with touch
  16. Releasing Windows 8 - August 1, 2012
  17. Collaborating to deliver Windows RT PCs

2011 20

  1. Updating our built-in apps for Windows 8
  2. Signing in with a picture password
  3. Windows Store event and blog
  4. Enabling large disks and large sectors in Windows 8
  5. Improving the setup experience
  6. Using Task Manager with 64+ logical processors
  7. Protecting the pre-OS environment with UEFI
  8. Protecting you from malware
  9. Best place to discuss Windows 8
  10. Experiencing Windows 8 touch on Windows 7 hardware
  11. Delivering fast boot times in Windows 8
  12. Bringing Hyper-V to “Windows 8”
  13. Accessing data in ISO and VHD files
  14. Improvements in Windows Explorer
  15. Designing the Windows 8 file name collision experience
  16. Improving our file management basics: copy, move, rename, and delete
  17. Building robust USB 3.0 support
  18. Introducing the team
  19. About this blog and your comments
  20. Welcome to Building Windows 8