Hi Charles

I did keep a table of them and looked them up using a useful website ( http://cqcounter.com/whois/ ). They basically all belong to Microsoft. To find out what ther are for/doing would require some more investigation.


>I would google the ip addresses it is trying to contact. I would guess you are not the first person to discover this and there is probably discussion out there
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>http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj717286.aspx
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>You also might try this to see what Win8 is trying to connect to :
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>http://centralops.net/co/DomainDossier.aspx
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>>iro Win8 - I dont mind Win8 iro the interface anymore - I think it's OK. The way it works is OK. I dont like typing to find a program so I just create desktop shortcuts or tiles for what I need often. What I really dont like is that 3 popular 3rd party firewall systems that I have tried seem to not work well with Win8 - I lose connectivity after a while. Plus, Win8 tries to connect to about 20+ IP addresses (some are in the same root however) for reasons simply unknown to me. For example, I notice that (more often than not) if I switch from desktop to the metro tile interface and then back to the desktop Win8 wants to make an outbound connection to some IP address. Why (rhetorical)?