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At the Microsoft Careers on line Job site, Microsoft has release some specifications about Windows 8.
” Are you passionate about software performance? Are you excited by the potential to have a positive impact on hundreds of millions of users, by improving their Windows experience? The Windows Fundamentals Performance Test Team is look for a software design engineer who can help us do just that – make future releases of Windows faster, smaller, and more responsive than Windows 7. OS Fundamentals, and specifically performance were a major area of focus during Windows 7 and will be just as important if not more so, during the development of the next version(s).“
So how does this pan out? If you are a developer, and you are looking at OS development, your focus would be to change and improve Windows 7 to create a new operating system, Windows8. The next question is more interesting, how do you make Windows 8 faster and smaller and more responsive?
Given that the technologies that are under development and have been available to Microsoft, such as 128 bit processors with 6,8,12 or even 48 cores, the operating system will look very different if it is trying to work with these features. There are other technologies, for instance Solid State Drives will be replacing the traditional rotating head hard disk drives. Another technology is the light (photon) based circuitry that will replace traditional wiring.
Touch and voice technology which came of age in Windows 7 will be in Windows8, and it will be interesting to see what the development will look like.
Embedded Systems, which need a stripped down version of the full operating system could benefit from the new more compact Windows8 version.
For more information about some of these technologies see:
Solid State Drives A Quick Review
LightFleet Delivers a Light Based Server to Microsoft
Webkit2 for Multiple Cores Architecture
Windows7 Component Embedded System
See Source: Microsoft Careers Global for the full job description.