After months of near silence, Microsoft has begun to speak publicly about Windows 8 earlier this week, the company began a new "building Windows 8" blog, and Windows Live Steven Sinofsky president, was the first concrete information on the operating system in a speech Wednesday.
The position offers a high level overview of how Windows 8 development is organized, and they have different areas of the teams working on. Most of them, such as "Platform of the core", "Core Network" and "Performance", held no surprises, but some teams are more interesting. The one called "App Store ", which confirms the rumor that Windows 8 include a feature store application was brought fled last year that mentioned a Windows shop. As with any product not yet unreleased, nothing is carved in stone, but this information makes it almost certain that such a store will be part of Windows 8
Also of interest was "Hyper-V" of the team. Alpha versions of Windows 8 leakage seems to include the virtualization platform Hyper-V previously only available in server versions of the operating system and the presence of this team seems to confirm that virtualization technology Hyper-V is now a feature of Windows client operating system as well. But, as noted by Steven Sinofsky at the post office ", some features are integrated into the base OS, but is ultimately just a portion of the proceeds from the server." The possibility remains that the Hyper-V is one of these functions.
The list includes a team flight team XAML confirmed e-mail announced that XAML XML-based user interface language currently used in both. NET and Silverlight is now developed by the team of Windows, not Microsoft Developer Tools division.
Exactly three years ago, the day after Windows 7 was the development, Sinofsky made a similar message Engineering 7 blog, highlighting how the structure of the two operating systems are very different. Sinofsky Windows 8 posts lists 35 teams, and points out that there are others (such as Internet Explorer), which are not directly part of the Windows team of eight. Windows 7 was only 23, one of which is responsible for Microsoft's Web browser.
The organization includes eight Windows more numerous groups dedicated to abstract the user experience rather than specific functional areas. While Windows 7 was a "Core User Experience" team, Windows 8, "The experience base Evolved", "Applications and Media Experience", "Networking Devices & Services" and "user-centric experience." With Windows 7, the company tried to ensure that one group would provide "end to end" functionality, which means both the basic plumbing and the interface visible. It looks like Windows 8 will be only later, with groups to examine the user experience, even if they cut across functional areas. It is a movement which should result in the operating system that better integrates the various functional areas and offers a smoother, more consistent performance.
Although Windows has eight teams, groups of Windows 7 have no obvious counterpart. Windows 8 might have "applications and experience of the media" and "Platform for the media," but unlike Windows 7, which has no "Media Center". On 8 Beta Windows Media Center functionality seems too lacking in the set an ominous sign for an application that has never reached the public announcement, but was loved by his devotees. Similarly, the change could simply mean that the standalone version of Media Center application n 'is, but its capabilities have been incorporated into Windows 8, the functions of other media.
