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Windows 8 Security: What's New?

Microsoft has been adding and improving advanced security features and capabilities in its Windows operating system and other applications over the past few years. Each iteration of Windows has featured improved security—necessary to withstand the constant barrage of attacks—and Windows 8 coming is no exception.
In Windows 8, Microsoft expanded its support for embedded hardware security, bundling a full-blown security suite into the operating system, introducing secure boot and signed applications, and enableing alternate authentication schemes, to name a few. Some of the latest innovations are aimed specifically at enterprise users and meet business needs, but there are plenty of improvements that end-users will notice right off the bat, too.
"After reviewing the layers of technologies used by Microsoft to protect Windows 8, it is our opinion that it is the most secure version of Microsoft Windows to date," Aryeh Goretsky, a distinguished researcher at ESET, wrote in a whitepaper examining security technologies in Windows 8 released earlier this month. Microsoft is offering three main versions of the new operating system. Windows 8 is the "home" edition, Windows 8 Pro includes features for enterprises, such as support for Hyper-V, BitLocker, a virtual private network client and group policy support, and Windows RT for ARM-powered devices.

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Dell Inspiron New Notebook | Dell New Notebooks

Convertible tablet PCs – that is, tablet PCs that can turn into a regular laptop form factor – have traditionally had swivel screens on hinges that work the same way as the swivel screens on Sony’s Alpha DSLRs, for example. There was also one with an awkward sliding mechanism that nobody remembers, but we won’t go into that here. At the Intel Developer Forum being held right now in San Francisco, Dell introduced an upcoming addition to their dell Inspiron line with a 10-inch notebook that transforms into a new tablet PC using a whole new approach. Once you open the lid of the laptop, the screen flips around on an axis halfway down the sides of the display, turning into a clamshell laptop!



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