Oh ye of little faith, the answer to everyone's(?) prayers is near at hand. Windows 8 WILL BE PORTABLE on a USB stick! With luck, you might even be able to run Notepad -- but definitely no built-in capability to accommodate third-party apps.
In the meantime, those looking for an official MS-supported solution will just have to be satisfied with their marginal "recovery disk" efforts. Win7
Edited by Nuno Brito, 09 May 2011 - 04:47 PM.
no links to unlicensed distributions of MS software please