Windows 8 to Get Time Machine-like History Vault
According to winrumors, a new feature that might make it into Windows 8 is something that will potentially be called History Vault. The new feature will supposedly make use of the Shadow Copies that Windows makes when files are modified.
History Vault could end up working much like Apple's Time Machine feature for Mac OS X, which keeps a record of all files added, deleted and modified. Users of Time Machine can browse back to see a file's history and restore it to the present system state. Time Machine also keeps a complete copy of the system for full backup and migration purposes.
It's a handy feature for Mac users, and something like it would be a great addition to Windows.
If they could keep the modifications safe, that would be a huge difference, eg: of a certain text file, only keep the data that was modified, and where it goes. Then compress that data.
I'm not too fond of having a WIndows 8, taking up 6GB of disk space, and an additional 14GB of data that can only expand, take CPU and HD cycles!
Man,are the good guys at MS gone, and now there are only gadget geeks doing the programming?
"Less is more" does not seem to count with MS.
They're only satisfied by bringing an OS that no system can run due to it's complexity, and stuff people really don't need!
I don't call this innovation, I call this degeneration!
Haha I think he means data
To be honest anything that sucks up hard drive space like that feature would is just not worth the space.
You are very worked up about a rumor about a piece of software that does not officially exist that is part of an operating system that is not on the market yet.
If you look at the source article you can see from the screenshot that:
Firstly, this is a security feature that you do not have to enable.
Secondly, if you do choose to enable it, it can save to separate disks and even to remote machines over a network. This means (if the screenshot is accurate) that you don't have to waste space on your own local hard drives.
Thirdly, stop being so concerned over hard drive space. These days, a high capacity hard drive can break below 10 cents per gigabyte. If it is too expensive for you to pay for a cheap backup drive at rates these days, you shouldn't be able to pay for a new operating system... or internet for that matter.
This is appears to be innovative, and could an intelligent way to utilize modern memory storage capacities in a way that is helpful to the user. And if it turns out to be crappy, use a magical ONOFF toggle that is available to all of Windows auxiliary services.
Don't obsess over bloatware. Just crunch through it if you can't remove it.
I think you're just being stubborn for the sake of being stubborn. I'd say a lot of people who still use xp do it so they can brag about how cool they are for still using it. The only reason to use XP is if you're a big company who can't afford the switch and/or still uses outdated business software.
what about price? ~$150 for windows 7 is a lot for the average joe who only uses his PC to check his email, watch a few videos on youtube and shop online. Remember linux is free, faster, smaller and safer.
The release is just too close to windows 7 to draw a lot of folks to windows 8. From what I've seen there's not much that's being added to 8 that would pry me from ubuntu or 7, never mind at the regular MS price tag.
In my experience XP is most reliable and fastest. 7 and Vista didn't bring nothing I want except slick themes which I can still have on XP. Oh yes, in 7 I like windows cascade capability.
I like this rumored feature if really works that way. No more corrupt files I guess? Nothing bad to say about it.
Nothing is going to "beat" Windows XP when you take modern hardware components and put them on a 10 year old OS. I'm not going to go into how an older operating system is naturally going to use fewer system resources because it'll just spark a flame war using Vista as a failure. Microsoft has a Intel style "tick tock" cycle. Major upgrade followed by a minor one where Vista was major and Windows 7 was minor and Windows 8 is supposed to be major. As far as disk space being an excuse. Wake up people. TeraByte drives are common place and extremely affordable, stop being stingy.
It's quite simple now via BIOS activation and with the SLIC soft mod but I'm sure MS is working on that/those..
Seriously? I know that editing and proofreading went the way of the Dodo several years ago on this site, but the first sentence? I suppose at least it wasn't the headline.