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laresTue 13/09/11 17:28

Microsoft previews Windows 8 / Approved Apps

"BUILD conference in Anaheim shows developers next version and 'Windows Store' for programs – but Microsoft will choose whether apps for tablets are approved"

"Windows 8, the next version of Microsoft's operating system, will sport a dual interface aimed at both tablet and desktop computers, and the company will approve or reject third-party apps for the tablet version.

Details of the first developer preview of Windows 8 were unveiled at the BUILD conference in Anaheim, California, where the week-long meeting of developers has just begun.

Microsoft boasted of the success of success of Windows 7, which division chief Steve Sinofsky said has now sold 450m copies - up from 350m in April – and which has now overtaken Windows XP in consumer usage. (XP still leads worldwide, though.)

Although Windows 8 will run on both Intel and ARM chip architectures, apps will have to be recompiled for the latter; there will be no virtualisation of Intel apps to run on ARM chips, which are already used in Apple's iPad, Android tablets and HP's discontinued TouchPad.

Furthermore, applications for the ARM version of Windows 8 will only be available through the "Windows Store" - and only apps compiled to use its "Metro" touch interface will appear there.

Windows 8 is expected to be released to the public in about a year's time.

Expectations are high. Microsoft is under pressure from Apple at the high end, and from iPads and other non-Windows mobile devices at the low end. Competitors talk of a "post-PC" world, in which the rapid growth of tablet sales in the developed world is being mirrored by a rapid slowdown in PC sales; in western Europe, PC sales fell by 20% in the second quarter of 2011, according to the research company IDC."

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