Users may be pumped up about Windows 7, but now the expectations about Windows 8 are starting to increase.
Last year an internal snapshot of the Windows 8 roadmap was disclosed. That roadmap showed internal dates for Windows 8 Milestone 2, the second of what are expected to be three major internal builds of Windows 8.
Yesterday, some information was released about Milestone 2, slated to be released on Feb 23, and coding for M3 is supposed to start next week.
According to the roadmap, M2 took about five months to complete, and developers expect M3 to take another five months as well. So somewhere around September there may be a technology preview of the model.
Another thing, the ARM design should be ready by the end of 2011, or early next year. (ARM is a 32-bit reduced instruction set computer (RISC) with an ISA instruction set architecture developed by ARM Holdings.) It is a popular processor, and as of 2005, about 98 percent of the more than one billion mobile phones sold each year used at least one ARM processor.
On January 5 2011, Microsoft announced that the next major version of the Windows NT family will include support for ARM processors. And at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft demonstrated a preliminary version of Windows (version 6.2.7867) running on an ARM-based computer.
With Microsoft moving its builds on schedule and with the ARM technology also a part of this, it will be interesting to see what developments the Windows 8 OS takes. Clearly the standard Windows OS model is in for some reshaping. The integration with the hardware is now at a new level because so much of what is in place audio, video, wireless and so on were not the high demand factors that were part of the original OS design. If Microsoft wants to take advantage of the new hardware, then its own software must be more inline with that hardware.
Source: Build Forum
Last year an internal snapshot of the Windows 8 roadmap was disclosed. That roadmap showed internal dates for Windows 8 Milestone 2, the second of what are expected to be three major internal builds of Windows 8.
Yesterday, some information was released about Milestone 2, slated to be released on Feb 23, and coding for M3 is supposed to start next week.
According to the roadmap, M2 took about five months to complete, and developers expect M3 to take another five months as well. So somewhere around September there may be a technology preview of the model.
Another thing, the ARM design should be ready by the end of 2011, or early next year. (ARM is a 32-bit reduced instruction set computer (RISC) with an ISA instruction set architecture developed by ARM Holdings.) It is a popular processor, and as of 2005, about 98 percent of the more than one billion mobile phones sold each year used at least one ARM processor.
On January 5 2011, Microsoft announced that the next major version of the Windows NT family will include support for ARM processors. And at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft demonstrated a preliminary version of Windows (version 6.2.7867) running on an ARM-based computer.
With Microsoft moving its builds on schedule and with the ARM technology also a part of this, it will be interesting to see what developments the Windows 8 OS takes. Clearly the standard Windows OS model is in for some reshaping. The integration with the hardware is now at a new level because so much of what is in place audio, video, wireless and so on were not the high demand factors that were part of the original OS design. If Microsoft wants to take advantage of the new hardware, then its own software must be more inline with that hardware.
Source: Build Forum
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