We’ve seen people stuffing Linux into portable USB drives, and some ‘lite’ version Windows XP too. But now, it seems that Windows 8 will also have a similar feature. A recently leaked Windows 8 shows that there’s a feature called Portable Workspaces, which enables you to take a 16GB (or greater) external storage device and dump a bootable, runnable copy of Win 8 on there. It remains to be seen just how many copies one could create, and whether they ever expire or, indeed, whether they can themselves be copied onto an HDD like a ghost image, but it’s easy to see this as a boon for support personnel. Hopefully this will improve the privacy of mobile desktop

SOURCE via Winrumors