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This week, we have released a new FREE preview e-Book for IT professionals: Introducing Windows 8 – An Overview for IT Professionals. Now that Windows 8 is generally available, this book is a great way to get quickly up-to-speed on all the new improvements in this latest Windows release.  In addition to a re-imagined user interface that provides an immersive experience across touch, pen, keyboard and mouse inputs, Windows 8 also includes significant updates across hardware support, management, security, networking, storage, virtualization, deployment, and recovery – all areas that are critically important to IT Pros!

In this 147-page eBook, you’ll find 11 chapters of detailed technical content covering the following key improvements for supporting PCs with Windows 8:

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• Hardware Innovations

Touch; Long battery life; Thiner, lighter, faster; Sensors and security; New Form Factors

• Experiencing Windows 8

Walk-through the new UI and key improvements to Task Manager and File Explorer.

• Customizing and Configuring Windows 8

Profile customization, Tile configuration, PC Settings, Redesigned NTFS

• Networking Enhancements

BranchCache, DirectAccess, Mobile broadband, IPv6

• Deploying Windows 8

Windows 8 SKUs, Application Compatibility, User State Migration, Deployment and Imaging, Windows PE, Volume Activation Management Tool, Windows-to-Go

• Delivering Windows Apps

Windows app lifecycle, Distributing via Windows Store, Distributing with an Enterprise

• Windows 8 Recovery

File History, Refresh and Reset, Windows Recovery Environment, DaRT, Advanced Options

• Windows 8 Management

PowerShell 3.0, Group Policy Improvements, System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, Windows Intune

• Windows 8 Security

Secure boot, SmartScreen, Vulnerability mitigation and sandboxing, BitLocker, Virtual smart cards, Dynamic Access Control

• Internet Explorer 10

New features, Group Policies for IE 10

• Windows 8 Virtualization

Client Hyper-V, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Application virtualization, User state virtualization