In a recent blog post by the Windows 8 development team, Microsoft expanded on a series of improvements that will be introduced in the next milestone of Windows 8 based on feedback from users on Windows 8 Developer Preview.
Among these you will find improvements to file management in Windows Explorer, picture meta data interpretation and overall performance improvements in Explorer.
Here's a few of the changes that really stand out:
The ability to pause and resume a copy operation. This translates to having the ability to resume copying files from say a server, if you happen to shut down your computer.
This is especially useful if you transfer large files or multiple files on your computer.?All you would have to do is resume the copy operation to complete the process.
Conflict resolution for duplicate files. In Windows 7 users are presented with a prompt alerting them to duplicate files when moving files around. This prompt includes the date and size of the files in question.
Windows 8 takes this a step further and duplicates with the same name, size, and time stamp are automatically filtered out so that you can focus on the files with actual differences.
A very useful feature that will help get rid of duplicate files and declutter your PC.
Windows 8 will honor EXIF data on picture orientation. How many times have you opened explorer to browse your photos and found that all the portrait photos are not oriented correctly?
In Windows 8 this will cease to occur because Windows Explorer will seek EXIF data from the picture to determine the correct orientation. This translates to a photo viewing experience without having to hit the rotate icon.
If you are interested in some of the other updates that will affect how Explorer behaves in Windows 8, make sure to check out the Windows 8 Development blog for more details.
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