Microsoft released Windows Dev Kit 2023 (formerly known as Volterra project) on the year come out.
The device promises a compact all-in-one workstation for building, running and testing Windows applications, faster artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads, thanks to a new Neural Processing Unit (NPU).
It is powered by Snapdragon’s 8cx Gen 3 computing platform along with Qualcomm Neural Processing SDKensuring maximum performance and taking Microsoft one step closer to making hybrid computing and AI workflow the norm.
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The Advertising (Opens in a new tab) His initial tease follows at Microsoft Build 2022, where the company outlines its vision for the new development suite, as well as the Arm-native toolkit to keep apps developed locally for a single device.
It is delivered there as well. Previews for the original releases of Visual Studio 2022, Windows Application Software Development Kit (SDK), and VC++ Runtime are now available, while the .NET Framework 4.8.1 for Arm was released with Windows 11’s 2022 update.
In addition, the .NET 7 Toolkit, which claims to offer functional parity to ARM against the x64 architecture, is now also available in preview, while Microsoft Azure virtual machines (VMs) and Arm64EC are now publicly available, ensuring that development and testing of applications is now seamless.
Arm64EC (Opens in a new tab) Offers a way to combine native Arm code with x64 code as part of the same process. One potential use case for this could be a gradual porting of x64 applications to the Arm architecture, rather than investing time in development for just one platform.
Visual Studio 2022 On Arm, which has been in monthly previews since July, now supports desktop workloads, Windows SDK components and Windows App SDK (Win UI), web, Universal Windows Platform (UWP), Node.js and game development workloads.
In conjunction with the launch of Microsoft devices Collaboration tools Now also available on Arm, including Microsoft TeamsAnd the Microsoft 365The internet browser Microsoft EdgeAnd the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) (Opens in a new tab) And the Microsoft OneDrive.
And just to make sure that users never feel the need to stray from their development kits, many of the creativity, video conferencingAll security and metering solutions have been converted to Arm hardware. There are a lot of names here, like Adobe, ZoomAnd Sophos, Cisco, PassMark — and Microsoft claims more are on the way.
The device itself is also interesting. In addition to the above, the device has 32 GB LPDDR4x RAM and 512 GB NVMe SSD Fast storage, plus three USB-A ports, two USB-C ports, and a Mini Display port for maximum device compatibility.
We’re definitely fans on paper, and we’ll be looking forward to any new developments coming out on the virtual October 26th Top Arm Dev (Opens in a new tab).
Currently, Windows Dev Kit 2023 is available for purchase in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and China.