TECHNOLOGY, What you should know about Windows 8

Its revealed in the two weeks since Microsoft Windows 8 developer preview build, the bits can have downloaded more than a million people left the vast majority of it professionals questions, what in the world their organisations one day always.
Here, Microsoft was characteristically mum, except for the targeted and very proven reservations through the Windows team on its building Windows 8 blog. This lack of basic information, not to mention tons of unanswered questions, has prevented users not from the preview with useful observations on Windows 8 for the end user perspective.
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But getting an understanding of the client-side nitty gritty in the corporate world is no easy matter, especially if you pre-release code. Microsoft is not questions and Windows 8 is undoubtedly a year away, which means that nothing in concrete is set. But also with the usual pre-beta admonitions from the perspective of the it and there are still a lot to chew up - especially as Windows 8 branched interface and support for Intel and ARM signal difficult decisions for the business end user support in the post-PC era.
Shift in surface modification of architecture support
The first major change in Windows 8 is the branched interface. Terminology is different, but I call referred to an interface "Metro" UI with tiles (see Figure 1) and the other "desktop," as it looks and works much like the Windows 7 Desktop, except for the black hole in the bottom left corner. (See for a more comprehensive view of Metro, the InfoWorld Windows 8 Metro visual tour.)

Figure 1:The tiled Metro interface. If you install an application in the desktop, Windows sets a tile that the desktop application is running in the Metro interface (c.f.., the Google chrome tile) in some cases.
The key factor for Windows 8 is that it should run on Intel/AMD hardware and the new ARM-based offers. Intel tablets, which are comparatively difficult in the near future, and the batteries are not so long. ARM tablets will be probably easier, more durable, and probably cheaper. Will one day catch up with Intel. But in the near future, at least the most popular tablets based on ARM architectures.
If you saw the demos and keynotes, and the glib reports on desktops, laptops, Intel and ARM tablets-"Intel and ARM, not Intel and ARM,", you can read the impression developed Microsoft operating systems, originally posted by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. While this can be literally true at least in some ways marketing is of the devil in the detail, and we are at the beginning of some knotty problems see the resulting from the mixing of architectures and Betriebssysteme--above all the problems, the enterprise developers and IT organizations encounter.
The three faces of Windows 8
Instead glimpse of Windows 8 as a single operating system, the on two different hardware-along the lines of, say, Windows NT, which ran on different Plattformen--it and developer of Windows 8 should think with three different flavors, shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2:The three very different faces of Windows 8, by company a developer's perspective.
Based on the preview for developers, it is very likely that Microsoft compatible is maintained 7 apps, close to 100 percent with Windows, Windows 8 desktop with Intel/AMD hardware. All the development tools with Windows 7, including Silverlight, used should Windows 8, unchanged, work with, as long as the goal of the Windows is 8 desktop on Intel/AMD hardware.
But if you want the desktop for ARM machines, it is a whole other can of worms. There is a reason why Intel-based tablets, making way to the build Conference were given.
If you these three scenarios in mind (Metro vs. desktop on Intel vs. desktop on ARM) keep, is Microsoft's official field diagram, describe the highest interactions in Windows 8, some useful. (See Figure 3).

Figure 3: How Windows 8 hangs together, by Ales Holecek presentation on build, approximately 08: 30 in the demo.
Now you see the other side of the Steve Sinofsky statement during the last week of financial analyst Q & A session: "we were already quite clear... that the ARM product x 86 applications run." "What we announced yesterday for the first time, that when writing an application Metro-style with which you support all of the tools that exist, automatically ARM in one of the languages that we support, or X 86."

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