Windows 8 may not have been as big a success story as Windows 7 but this has nothing to do with flaws or glitches in the operating system. The slump in overall PC sales might be held responsible for the dip in licence activation’s on Windows 8. That said lets take a look at five more reasons as to why you should consider upgrading your Windows machine to Windows 8.
Storage Spaces
Handling and managing data on multiple hard drives can be cumbersome task. Storage Spaces on Windows 8 is a new feature that creates a pool of storage from several different hard drives. The storage pool acts like as if its a single hard drive.
Hyper V
The hyper V feature on Windows 8 allows you to create virtual machines. It replaces Windows virtual PC that existed on Windows 7. You can use it to install Ubuntu or RedHat on your PC.
Refresh and Reset
A common features on smartphones and tablets is the factory reset tool. With time and use, every software tends to become laggy and a reset is probably the best answer. You can simply create your own system image and reset back to it. This saves huge amount of time that a complete formatting of your PC might take.
Security
With Windows 8 you can now let go of those expensive and resource consuming anti virus softwares. Windows defender is more than what you might need.
Battery Life
With the removal of aero and other low level system changes, Windows 8 should be able to provide better battery life than Windows 7 on similar hardware setups.
Do check out our post on 5 Reasons Why You Should Switch to Windows 8 to see 5 more reasons to make that switch to Windows 8.