Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Sep 2012 20:16 UTC, submitted by Bob Stein

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The file system has already been addressed on Microsoft's 'Engineering Windows 8' blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/16/building-the-next-gen...
Besides a listing of the improvements, how is performance?
Since it isn't out yet, benchmarks aren't either. We'll need to see.
Is there a conversion process available?
No.
Seems like a change this big would be more than a brief mention on the second to last page.
ReFS will only be made available on Windows 8 Server for the time being. Desktops will remain NTFS-only.
Also, the article does not make clear if there are still separate OEM and retail versions of the OS. This would be good to know if I plan on purchasing Windows 8 on my current computer, then attempt to move it to a different machine later.
There are separate versions, but OEM versions can no longer be purchased by consumers. See the details see:
http://www.myce.com/news/exclusive-windows-8-contains-new-product-a...
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Windows-8-OEM-OA-3.0-Piracy-Genuin...
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What? Microsoft has introduced a new filesystem? I wish the article would have explained this better. Besides a listing of the improvements, how is performance? What FS did the author use on his test machines? Is there a conversion process available?
Seems like a change this big would be more than a brief mention on the second to last page.
Also, the article does not make clear if there are still separate OEM and retail versions of the OS. This would be good to know if I plan on purchasing Windows 8 on my current computer, then attempt to move it to a different machine later.