Windows Phone 8 Detailed, Uses Windows 8 Kernel

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 3, 2012 @06:42AM 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.'"

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code reuse shares vulnerabilities by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-03 06:48 · Score: 0, Troll

Great, now anyone who manages to hack a win8 desktop also gets phones for free -- and vice versa. Species that have little diversity are always at risk of extinction.
Re:No Comments by miknix · 2012-02-03 06:57 · Score: 0, Troll

From TFA:

through to the addition of NFC 'wallet' payments and BitLocker encryption (...) It will also have the same network stack, security, and multimedia support as Windows 8.
emphasis mine