At this point in the game, I wouldn't expect much change in the core of Win8. It seems to be a bit late to be changing features; I'm thinking mostly we'll just see cosmetic changes between now and RTM.
But you never know. By the way... I'm having a tough time with Win8 correctly mapping network drives on logon. I've traditionally used a logon script, which didn't work with Win8. I migrated to using Group Policy instead, but that doesn't work, either. There have been lengthy threads about this on Microsoft's support forums. No resolution so far. The problem existed in the Consumer Preview, and is still present in the Release Preview. Anyone else seen this? John Hornbuckle, MSMIS, PMP MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us From: Daniel Chenault [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 11:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 8 for Business Who wants to start a pool on what features will be cut before RTM? ________________________________ From: James Hill [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 10:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 8 for Business There seems to be a lot of negativity towards Windows 8 (99% of which is directed at Metro). But there are many new features that will make it worthwhile for business. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28970 After reading through that document I'm looking forward to Windows 8 and Server 2012 even more now. There are some very cool features and improvements on the way. Some of the standouts for me:- * Built-in print driver * Bitlocker o Only encrypting used space - that will greatly speed up enabling bitlocker. o New Hard drives shipped already encrypted * Branch Office Direct Printing * Client Hyper-V * USMT now support migrating from XP. James. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
