A new job has been posted at the Microsoft career site,giving further clues that Microsoft have started working on Windows 8.The job post reads that Windows 8 is in planning and preparation stage.
Here is what the page reads-
Job Category: Software Engineering: Development
Location: United States, WA, Redmond
Job ID: 701629 7857
Division: Server & Tools Business
This is a great time to join us. Our team owns the Windows Update Client and our code delivers software and updates to over 600 million computers. We just finished up work on Windows 7, and are pushing forth on Windows 8 planning and preparation. There are opportunities to work on a number of hard problems, including third-party application updating, updating virtual machines while they’re turned off (turns out this is pretty hard!), and delivering full applications, among others. To help us charge full steam on these fronts, we are looking for skilled and passionate software engineers.
As part of this team, you will help shape Windows 8. Components of our code include a core agent that runs as an NT service, an API layer and a UI application. We talk to the update servers using web services and we have special protocols in place to deal with the massive scale of the system.
The successful candidate will have:
• Excellent design and development skills.
• A strong ability to work independently and across disciplines in order to drive a product feature.
• Five years of industry experience.
• A BS or greater degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
Thanks to Codename Windows for the news..
