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News about Windows 8 has relatively cooled down over the last few weeks. However, today we learned of a new feature in Windows 8 codenamed "Protogon." "Protogon" was discovered by Sandro Villinger at ITworld. It revolves around the concept of a new filesystem: "I’ve also dug up traces of some underlying file system changes that I couldn’t quite make sense of, such as an entirely new file system driver called "NT Protogon FS driver", which looks like a kernel mode driver for some sort of (yet unknown) file system called Protogon. It’s unclear, whether this is a major new file system or just some minor subsystem." Mary Jo Foley consulted with Rafael Rivera about the concept and came to the conclusion that "it seems to incorporate database-like concepts like transactions, cursors, rows and tables" with the capability of replacing or emulating NTFS. This might also be a new implementation of Microsoft's past attempt...

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If you are running Windows 8 build 7955, then surely you would like to see the new Immersive Browser running on your system. To run immersive browser you have to first patch the Windows using Red Pill which we have posted earlier. Once you have patched the system files just press CTRL+Shift+F9 (it would disable aero effects in Windows 8 and seems to be a way to enable UI for tablet PC’s). Then just go to the Program Files-> Microsoft –>Immersive Browser –>Microsoft.ImmersiveBrowser and click on miexplorer file . You would see the immersive browser running with very limited functionalities. The immersive Browser which opens doesn’t have a close button and only have options like forward and back button and reload.

Here goes the Windows 8 wallpapers created exclusively for Windows 8 Beta readers by our friends at The Customize Windows. All the wallpapers are of very high quality and would fit on most of the screens.     source (thanks to windows8beta.com)

Microsoft has earlier previewed Windows 8 build 7867 , today at the Computex 2011, build 7985 was demoed.The complete build string of this build is 7985.fbl_core1_kernel_cptx.110503-1501 which states that the build was compiled on May 3.From the screenshot below it can be clearly seen that this build has completely overhauled Ribbon interface with the ability to collapse automatically. The Immersive Browser in this build is also pretty mature as compared to the one in Windows 8 build 7955. No other significant changes has been found in this build as it also belongs to Milestone 3 branch. The latest known Windows 8 build is Build 8011 and the latest build that has been leaked is build 7959

Google on Wednesday confirmed that a hacker from China was able to break into hundreds of Gmail accounts. The company detected the breach and notified victims of the attack, as well as relevant government authorities. Several high-profile accounts were hacked according to the Associated Press , including senior U.S. government personnel, Chinese political activists and government officials from South Korea. The actual hack was a phishing scheme that prompted users to enter their user names and passwords on a web page. “It’s important to stress that our internal systems have not been affected—these account hijackings were not the result of a security problem with Gmail itself,” Google said on its official Gmail blog. Read

Microsoft has just taken the wraps off its upcoming Windows OS (codenamed Windows 8), which will run on ARM’s architecture. It will be a sort of all-in-one OS that would power tablets, desktop PCs and laptops. At the moment, it seems like Windows 7 with Windows Phone 7 skin on top of it with advanced features, suitable for gadgets with extra processing capabilities. However, we kinda like what we see, especially the multi-tasking aspect. Hit the break below to continue reading. Unlike Apple’s iOS and HP’s webOS, Microsoft is not willing to compromise on features. Rather, it wants all features that a user gets on a desktop to be available on a Tablet. We are not sure how that would affect battery management apart from core performance (you’d know if you have used a netbook with a 1.6 GHz processor) but probably that’s where ARM architecture could come into play, at least on the power management front. This is a big gamble for Microsoft, as it won’t just be betting all its chips on W...