Two weeks ago, I finally got a chance to try out a Windows 8 system. First, I have to give huge kudos to Dell, who makes the XPS 12 system I’m playing with. This system seems to be the ideal platform for a Windows 8 user. A thin and light notebook with plenty of power, with the ability to flip the screen around and make it into a touchscreen tablet. That said, during my initial installation of the system, alarm bells immediately rang in my head. “This system doesn’t comply with many password policies!” I found that as I joined my Windows 8 system to my company’s domain (which enforces a number of things through group policy), some configurations were allowed[…]