Microsoft's Windows 8 goals revealed  Fast-boot slate, cloud
services  Evaluating the cost of a DDoS attack  Microsoft's
successor to Windows 7 is taking shape - and that shape looks
suspiciously like an iPad supplementing a diet of media with
online services.  A set of Microsoft slides, apparently leaked
online here and expanded here, have mapped out the company's
design and feature goals for Windows 8.  Among those goals:
Windows 8 works on a slate form factor in addition to the
regular laptop and "all-in-one" PC, with Windows 8 complementing
this new form factor by providing instant power on - or at least
near instant.  Windows 8 slates will support touch and use
facial recognition to pull up the users' profile - presumably
application settings, documents and services.  Microsoft wants
Windows 8 to feed users cloud services and let them download
applications from a planned Windows 8 Store. So far, Microsoft's
only been talking about marketplaces in relation to Windows
Mobile and Zune service.  Among the ot