Microsoft is currently working on the next major upgrade to the Windows Operating System, currently called Windows 8. This comes with a radical redesign to support not only PC but also Windows Phone and Tablets.

Before last week, there were several speculations that Microsoft would be dropping Win32 apps in support of Metro UI based HTML5 applications. However, that does not seems to be the case when Microsoft revealed more information about Windows 8 and provided a Developer Build version of Windows 8 for testing. This build is far from release and is probably at least 6 months to a year before it is prime for mass release.

There are probably many comments about Windows 8 new interface but that is not the topic of this post. We were able to put Windows 8 and our Windows applications to a test and we are happy to announce that they work as they do in Windows 7. Nothing basically changed as far as our applications experience goes. So in short, your investment is safe.

However with that said, although Windows 8 supports the upcoming Windows Phone and Tablets, our applications would not run on those platform. These devices are not based on the standard Intel/AMD CPU but rather on the ARM Processor which is radically different. Currently, only Metro Applications would run on those devices. The ARM Processors are nowhere as powerful as the current Intel/AMD CPU and their designs would not be practical for resource-hungry applications such as image processing. We may consider porting over some less intensive applications in the future but for the time being, we will wait for more information from Microsoft as anything can change on Windows 8.