Windows To Go: Overview

- Windows To Go is a new feature…offered with Windows 8.…It's a great way to kind of enhance the delivery of…Windows 8 to your environment.…Perhaps even do some testing.…So I want to give you an overview in this short video.…Rather than trying to walk through the entire process…of preparing Windows 8 To Go.…So to understand what the capability is.…What you're effectively doing is enable the boot…of Windows 8, from a memory stick or device.…There are certain requirements to make that happen.…But once you have prepared that memory stick…or USB drive.…

With Windows 8.…You have essentially the boot files and the entire…operating system on a memory stick.…And once you boot a system using that stick.…Your local drives aren't visible and you're running…only off the stick.…Kind of like booting off a virtual environment,…without having to use any of the, essentially hard…drive resources on your box.…It's a great way to test to see see whether or not a…particular device's hardware capabilities will work…with Windows 8.…It's a great way to be able to test your environment…