Windows 8 Is Getting A Backup Feature That Copies Apple's Time Machine

[Jagi]

Windows 8 Is Getting A Backup Feature That Copies Apple's Time Machine

Microsoft started giving Windows 8 to computer manufacturers this week, and some new features are already starting leak.

The latest, discovered by TNW, is called History Vault, an automatic backup feature that seems to be a knockoff of Apple's Time Machine.

Just like Time Machine, History Vault will backup several times per day and allow you to restore a file or your system from a previous date.

Add that to the list of features Microsoft has borrowed from Mac OS X. But for Windows users, it's a welcome one.

 

[TheyCallMeBe]

When is Windows 8 dropping?

 

[MadWun]

Windows 7 just got here. How about making some improvements on that shit

 

[Jagi]

Windows 7 just got here. How about making some improvements on that shit

they needed to release windows 7 early to compete with linux in the netbook market and now they need to release windows 8 early to compete in the tablet market..


All apple has to do is kill off the tablet and release the iMonocle and microsoft will have to rush out windows 9

 

[kdub83]

Windows 8 is probably another 3-4 years away. They were probably working on Windows 8 before the released Windows 7. Remember how fast 7 came out after that disaster OS Vista?

 

[Jagi]

Windows 8 is probably another 3-4 years away. They were probably working on Windows 8 before the released Windows 7. Remember how fast 7 came out after that disaster OS Vista?

2012 was the last i heard as the release for win8.. they need it to work with tablet features so 3-4 years away would be a death sentence

 

[redemption]

Funny how they dissed Time Machine initially, and now they are implementing the same feature

Then again, they dissed the iPhone initially as well, and look where that got them

 

[KRAYZIE]

I think that time machine may be a rip off of gateway g-back. this fist computer that i had was a gateway. and it had a program that allow me to revert and make my pc like nothing had happened

 

[actinanass]

Hell, I was just starting to like windows 7...

 

[redemption]

I think that time machine may be a rip off of gateway g-back. this fist computer that i had was a gateway. and it had a program that allow me to revert and make my pc like nothing had happened

Time Machine is a different animal. It does offer system restore functionality, but you can also restore data on a file by file, revision by revision, basis

 

[Ryokurin]

History Vault is nothing but a gui front end of Shadow Copy, which has existed since XP, and we've all used it without knowing it. http://www.osnews.com/story/24585/Windows_8_To_Get_History_Vault_

 

[JD Walker]

Microsoft is that little fat kid that can't keep up. They should refocus on other products because they can no longer hang.

How is a CVS NOT a good idea?

 

[Zero]

History Vault is nothing but a gui front end of Shadow Copy, which has existed since XP, and we've all used it without knowing it. http://www.osnews.com/story/24585/Windows_8_To_Get_History_Vault_

I was just about to say I've been using that "new" feature forever in Windows.

 

[Swizz Heat]

Damn, is Win 7 so old now we talking about 8 already.

 

[CarryOn]

hows it different from system restore?

 

[Big Tex]

I think that time machine may be a rip off of gateway g-back. this fist computer that i had was a gateway. and it had a program that allow me to revert and make my pc like nothing had happened

Time machine is just Apple's version of rsync. They put a nice GUI on it and made it easier to use.



http://everythinglinux.org/rsync/

 

[p5ych3]

hows it different from system restore?

system restore doesn't restore your data. it only does windows system
files and settings.

 

[CADE_BADAZZ]

How long MS going to keep pleying catch up. They need to hang some help wanted aids in Apples breakroom.