Windows 8 to feature USB-runnable Portable Workspaces, sales of 16GB thumb drives set

[hsakarp_kahtap]

Windows 8 to feature USB-runnable Portable Workspaces, sales of 16GB thumb drives set to soar

There are endless flavors of "Linux on a stick," tasty downloadable versions of that OS which run from removable storage and let you take Linus' progeny for a spin without dedicating any of your partitions to the cause. There have been ways of making this work with Windows, too, but now Microsoft is getting into the game properly. That leaked version of Windows 8 we looked at recently contains a feature called Portable Workspaces, which enables you to take a 16GB (or greater) external storage device and dump a bootable, runnable copy of Win 8 on there. It remains to be seen just how many copies one could create, and whether they ever expire or, indeed, whether they can themselves be copied onto an HDD like a ghost image, but it's easy to see this as a boon for support personnel. Well, support personnel of the future, anyway.

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[Bearcat]

Thank you Prakash for the interesting news. I think being able to run a copy of Win 8 on a USB stick would be awesome!

[JayCub]

Thank you Prakash looks logical on paper, no doubt there will be alot of restrictions in place or Office editions maybe... hard to see home owners been able to run more than one instance without paying MS prices. One to look out for in the future.

[LizardMan]

Let's wait and see

[INDRANIL]

Hmm nice one interesting share Prakash bro . Who is going to give me some credit ( $ ) ?? ..

[Ceyfer √]

It's already possible by now, but it's a painstaking process...optimized OS for portability is a go!

[hsakarp_kahtap]

Hmm nice one interesting share Prakash bro . Who is going to give me some credit ( $ ) ?? ..

Contact Mr.Tom , TOM & Indra Banks Inc.
Contact page, apply for loan.
May be this feature will only available for Profession/Ultimate, Enterprise and Premium edition only , lets wait and watch .

[INDRANIL]

Wow cool link .

[djziggy]

It's possible to run any OS from a USB drive, I had Win7 running from a USB (Disc on Key) under XP.

You'll need to follow the instructions here if you'd like to do it : http://maketecheasier.com/install-vi...usb/2010/01/02
The OS will run inside a special portable version of VirtualBox, it works!

P.S. as with any virtual machines, you'll need enough RAM for both OS', the normal one and the portable one.