Question: What apps can one expect the Photos app to match with?
Answer: Facebook and Flickr

Question: What makes Windows Store apps unique?
Answer: apps are to be optimized for touchscreen environments and are more specialized than current desktop applications.

Question: What are contracts?
Answer: collection of hooks to provide common functionality that can integrate with other apps

Question: What programming languages does Windows Runtime work with?
Answer: C, C++, Visual Basic .NET, C#, along with HTML5 and JavaScript

Question: What makes Windows apps binary code compatible?
Answer: If written in some "high-level" languages

Question: What does compiling components as Windows Runtime make possible?
Answer: permitting consumption by all compatible languages

Question: What kind of environment provides Windows apps extra security?
Answer: sandboxed environment

Question: Where can Windows 8 install apps from?
Answer: Windows Store

Question: How do devices with Windows 8 Enterprise attain apps outside of the Windows Store?
Answer: sideload apps

Question: What other devices can sideload apps?
Answer: Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT devices

Question: What does immersive app stand for?
Answer: the apps prior to the first official presentation of Windows 8

Question: What are apps after the introduction of Windows 8 called?
Answer: Metro-style apps

Question: Who is Soma Somasegar?
Answer: vice president of Microsoft's development software division

Question: When did Windows Store apps become the real term for the apps?
Answer: September 12, 2012

Question: What code did Windows 8 change to?
Answer: API code instead of WinRT

Question: What term did Microsoft give to its exception privilige for web browsing?
Answer: New experience enabled

Question: What different options did the desktop version have?
Answer: able to permanently run in the background, use multiple background processes, and use Windows API code

Question: Which two browsers promised to develop Metro-style versions of their browsers?
Answer: Chrome and Firefox

Question: What does Chromes version for Windows 8 do?
Answer: uses a full-screen version of the existing desktop interface

Question: What does Firefox's version for Windows 8 do?
Answer: uses a touch-optimized interface

Question: When was Firefox's version of Windows 8 made accesible?
Answer: September 2013

Question: What is found on the Start Screen?
Answer: a customizable array of tiles linking to various apps and desktop programs

Question: What do live tiles do?
Answer: display constantly updated information and content

Question: What is the primary function of the PC Settings app? 
Answer: used for basic configuration and user settings

Question: Where can advanced settings options be found?
Answer: Control Panel

Question: What is the new System User interface built on?
Answer: Microsoft's Metro design language

Question: What is charms?
Answer: A vertical toolbar

Question: What is the purpose of charms?
Answer: provides access to system and app-related functions, such as search, sharing, device management, settings, and a Start button

Question: How is an active list of apps accessed?
Answer: Pointing the cursor in the top-left corner of the screen and moving down

Question: What does swiping from the left edge of the screen do?
Answer: allows one to switch between apps and Desktop

Question: How is the traditional desktop evironment opened?
Answer: via a tile on the Start screen

Question: Why was the ability to play DVD-Video taken off of Windows Media Player?
Answer: the cost of licensing the necessary decoders

Question: What does the Pro Pack do?
Answer: upgrades the system to Windows 8 Pro

Question: Which main feature was removed in Windows 8?
Answer: the traditional Start menu

Question: What backup element is still found on Windows 8?
Answer: Backup and Restore

Question: How is Backup and Restore opened?
Answer: through a Control Panel applet called "Windows 7 File Recovery"

Question: What does :76 Shadow Copy do?
Answer: access previous versions of shared files stored on a Windows Server computer

Question: What is :74 used for? 
Answer: other software

Question: Why did Microsoft decrease the required resoultion for tablets?
Answer: to allow "greater design flexibility" for future products

Question: What is a convertible form factor? 
Answer: a standalone device that combines the PC, display and rechargeable power source with a mechanically attached keyboard and pointing device in a single chassis

Question: How does a convertible become a tablet?
Answer: attached input devices are hidden or removed leaving the display as the only input mechanism

Question: What did Microsoft change the tablet resolution requirements on March 12, 2013?
Answer: 1024×768

Question: How many Windows 8 editions are there?
Answer: three

Question: What extras does Windows 8 Pro have?
Answer: BitLocker, Hyper-V, the ability to join a domain, and the ability to install Windows Media Center as a paid add-on

Question: What extras do Windows 8 Enterprise have?
Answer: features aimed towards business environments

Question: How would one get Windows RT?
Answer: as pre-loaded software on devices specifically developed for it

Question: During it's launch how much was a Windows 8 upgrade?
Answer: $39.99 online, or $69.99 for retail box

Question: What is the Windows 8 price?
Answer: $119.99

Question: What is the Windows 8 Pro price?
Answer: $199.99

Question: Which PC owners could purchase a Windows 8 Pro uprgrade for $14.99?
Answer: PCs pre-loaded with Windows 7 Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate

Question: How much was the Windows Media Center add-on during the original Windows 8 promotion?
Answer: free

Question: What restrictions do Windows upgrade licenses have?
Answer: require an existing version of Windows to install

Question: What did Windows offer in place of a full version of the software?
Answer: specialized "System Builder" SKU

Question: What did the System Builder SKU take the place of?
Answer: (OEM) SKU

Question: What does OEM stand for?
Answer: original equipment manufacturer

Question: What did the Personal Use License allow?
Answer: purchase and personal use by users on homebuilt computers

Question: What replaced Windows 8?
Answer: Windows 8.1

Question: What is the primary difference in Windows 8.1? 
Answer: 8.1 is available as "full version software"

Question: What exemption was removed from Windows 8.1?
Answer: Personal Use License

Question: What is Windows 8.1 with Bing?
Answer: a special OEM-specific SKU of Windows 8.1 subsidized by Microsoft's Bing search engine

Question: What architecture types does Windows 8 support?
Answer: 32-bit and 64-bit

Question: What is 16-bit support intended for?
Answer: CPUs compatible with x86 2nd generation

Question: When was x86 2nd generation created?
Answer: 1978

Question: How does the online Windows installer know which version to install?
Answer: automatically installs the version corresponding with the architecture of the system's existing Windows installation

Question: What Windows version is compatible with ARM processors?
Answer: Windows RT

Question: What apps work on Windows RT?
Answer: only supports applications included with the system

Question: Why does Windows RT only work with apps included with the system?
Answer: to ensure that the system only runs applications that are optimized for the architecture

Question: Who condemned Microsoft for requiring devices to have secure boot enabled by default?
Answer: free software supporters

Question: What resolution did Microsoft come to in their certificiation guidelines?
Answer: vendors would be required to provide means for users to re-configure or disable secure boot

Question: Who is Tony Mangefeste?
Answer: Microsoft developer

Question: What ideology does Microsoft follow?
Answer: to provide customers with the best experience first, and allow them to make decisions themselves