Microsoft officially announces Windows Phone 8

Windows Phone 8 announced

In the smallest kept secret, this morning in San Francisco, CA Microsoft announced details of the upcoming Windows Phone eight operating system codenamed "Apollo".

Accelerating what was started with Windows Telephone 7, Microsoft is continuing down the path of "Mango" and building for the next generation of hardware. Every bit detailed by Joe Belfiore during a keynote speech, Windows Phone eight is due out "this fall" and will contain many new features both for developers and consumers.

Equally expected, details on new device resolutions, multi-core CPU support, near-field communications (NFC) and native C++ development were given during the Microsoft sponsored Windows Phone Summit. While the software-development kit (SDK) was not released for developers, one is expected to be delivered past the end of summertime where more technical guidance will also be granted.

The big focus for this morn is on the new architecture, the NT kernel, for Windows Phone and what it means for developers, OEMs and Information technology professionals. With Windows Telephone 8 and Windows 8 desktop based on the same core, developers can more than easily leverage their apps by sharing overlapping code between the two platforms. Such a movement should peachy raise app development on Windows Phone as desktop developers will take to only engage in pocket-sized coding fixes to port their app to the new mobile Bone.

Moreover, applications for Windows Phone 7.x will automatically run on Windows Phone viii with little or no changes to the code of the app. Apps coded on Windows Phone 8 will conversely run on Windows Telephone 7.x besides so long as they don't employ native coding (apps coded with native C++ won't run on Windows Phone 7.x since they use different APIs).

While plenty was shown off there is all the same plenty more that will come up later this summer when the Developer SDK is released.

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