The Windows product development team has posted some information about Windows 8 and execution on the Arm® processor. Here’s the first paragraph from that post: One of the notable aspects of Microsoft Windows has been the flexibility the architecture has shown through shifts in technology and expansion of customer usage over time. What started out…
Tag: Windows 8
Previewing the Windows Store – new Windows Store for Developers blog
Yesterday Antoine Leblond, Vice President of Windows Web Services, posted a blog post with some information on the coming Windows Store. Here’s a brief excerpt from the beginning: This is the first post in our new Windows Store blog, which will be dedicated to informing developers both on the progress of the Store as a…
Microsoft Management Summit 2012 – registration now open
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Small form factor PC’s – checkout the ZOTAC ZBOX nano VD01
I still haven’t given up the idea that my Samsung 55” HDTV can be successfully driven by a cool little Windows 7 or Windows 8 box. Zotac just announced Zotac Zboz. Catchy name. Sounds familiar. I’d like to put something like this in my entertainment center and have it record FIOS TV from a Ceton…
Windows 8 Secured Boot Architecture explained
The Windows engineering team has published several articles about the new boot possibilities for Windows 8. Here’s an excerpt from the most recent post on the subject: There have been some comments about how Microsoft implemented secure boot and unfortunately these seemed to synthesize scenarios that are not the case so we are going to…
Windows 8 App Compat Cookbook – now available for download
This document builds on the concepts embodied in the Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Application Compatibility Cookbook (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/bb757005.aspx) and the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Application Quality Cookbook (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dd371778(v=VS.85).aspx). Like them, this document provides developers with the means to become familiar with how to verify the compatibility of their apps with the…
Didn’t attend //BUILD? No problem, hit PLAY
BUILD is a new event that shows modern hardware and software developers how to take advantage of the future of Windows. Learn how to work with the all new touch-centric user experience to create fast, fluid, and dynamic applications that leverage the power and flexibility of the core of Windows, used by more than a…
Windows 8 – The Developer Preview
“You probably want to try out the preview release—and you can. Starting at 8PM today, Seattle time, you can download all of the code that attendees at BUILD received. This includes 32 or 64 bit x86 builds, with or without development tools. The releases also include a suite of sample/SDK applications and the SDK (please…
Hyper-V is coming to Windows 8
“Whether you are a software developer, an IT administrator, or simply an enthusiast, many of you need to run multiple operating systems, usually on many different machines. Not all of us have access to a full suite of labs to house all these machines, and so virtualization can be a space and time saver. In…
Windows 8 Adds .ISO and .VHD Mount Support
I have a pretty huge library of Microsoft products. Those products were downloaded from my TechNet Subscription in .ISO form. A few of those .ISO files are burned to physical media but in general it’s only the OS images I need for bare metal installs. The rest of the library is typically used for…