Windows Phone 8 Detailed, Uses Windows 8 Kernel 267
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from the starting-from-scratch dept.
MrSeb writes "Thanks to a leaked video — a video that Microsoft made for Nokia — we now have lots of details about Windows Phone 8 (WP8). From deep Windows 8, Skype, and SkyDrive integration, through to the addition of NFC 'wallet' payments and BitLocker encryption, it sounds like Windows Phone 8 will be close to iOS and Android in terms of features. The interesting stuff is under the hood, though: WP8 will have the Windows 8 kernel instead of the Windows CE kernel of its predecessors. Through the Win 8 kernel, WP8 will support native code and multi-core processors. It will also have the same network stack, security, and multimedia support as Windows 8. While Win 8 apps won't be directly compatible with Windows Phone 8, Windows Phone manager Joe Belfiore says developers will be able to 'reuse — by far — most of their code.'"
Re:Bizarro World (Score:4, Informative)
Just like all that Android malware is also taking over Linux desktops, right?
Re:Bizarro World (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Xbox too? (Score:2, Informative)
It was explicitly stated as the idea when Windows 7 was getting close to sale-able. XNA means you can code once, write 3 interfaces, and release on Xbox, WinPhone 7, and Windows 7. This is just going a few steps furthur down the road.
Re:code reuse shares vulnerabilities (Score:4, Informative)
At least, for some values of "hacks" and some values of "gets their phone".
Here [github.com], for example, how to get root on Android using generic Linux kernel vulnerability.
Re:So much for backward compatibility, huh? (Score:4, Informative)
>Or forward. Or sideways. WP8 won't be binary compatible with WinCE-based WP7 (which itself wasn't compatible with WinCE-based WM6), nor with desktop Windows 8, nor with, apparently, any other OS that's ever existed. Sure hope they make it real easy for developers to build their existing code for WP8.
WP7 apps will run on WP8.
http://wmpoweruser.com/brandon-watson-squashes-rumours-that-windows-phone-7-apps-will-be-incompatible-with-windows-phone-8/ [wmpoweruser.com]
Re:Xbox too? (Score:3, Informative)
That's because you weren't paying attention. The number of consoles affected has been estimated at between 23% and 54% [wikipedia.org]. In other news, anecdotes aren't data.
You seem to think that you're somehow smarter than most people. A general rule of thumb is that anyone who believes themselves to be an expert probably isn't; people who are smarter and know more realize how much more there is to know. For a more elegant statement, refer to Socrates [wikiquote.org]. For a more scientific statement, see here. [wikipedia.org]
Re:No Comments (Score:5, Informative)
Not to be a dick, but your argument comes about half a decade late. Microsoft really did everything right in terms of security since XP. They minimized the damage that the biggest issue, user, can cause to the system, hardened the system itself significantly, slapped a properly functional firewall into a default installation and so on.
Re:Bizarro World (Score:4, Informative)
Windows Phones come in a variety of form factors at a variety of price points determined by the manufacturers. True the hardware variety is not as wide as Android, but that has also allowed Windows Phone to avoid many of the problems associated with keeping the ecosystem up to date; every single windows phone past and present is updatable to the latest release. Can't say the same for Android even over a year after 2.3 was released.
Currently hardware varies by CPU speed, screen tech, memory, storage size, materials, colors, sliding keyboard, camera specs, and software features. And yes there are phones with front facing cameras. Again, this is more variety than you'll find in Apple's lineup (3 storage choices, 2 colors, everything else is the same), and less than you'll find in Android's lineup.
What this leak is saying is that in the future phones will have different resolution, cores, form factors (blackberry-like), upgradable storage, etc.