The beginning of the WinRT era, the end of the WinNT era

ByKaneda99

The appearance of Windows 8 is a new "WinRT (Windows Runtime)It is the beginning of the era, "WinNT eraReport that it will be the end of the IT consultancy companyGartnerHas announced.

Gartner Says Windows 8 Marks the Beginning of the WinRT Era


Microsoft will launch in late 2012Next OS "Windows 8"We are planning to release. In Windows 8, the WinRT programming model and the new UI are fused, and the user can use the new WinRT application, but at the same time support of "legacy" in the WinNT era also continues,Win32Applications can also continue to use. (WinRT here is the OS for the ARM architecture "Windows RTApart from)

Microsoft will continue to support support for Win32 applications so that users can continue to use Win32 applications, but WinRT is positioned as a strategic platform for new development . Therefore, in the future, WindowsDesktop environmentAnd Gartner predict that existing Windows applications will lose their importance as new Windows OSs are released in the future.

Michael Silver, a prominent analyst with Gartner vice president, said that companies will spend many years to make applications compatible with Metro in the future, at least they will penetrate applications that users use It will take at least 5 years to say that it will take.


Windows 8 only sees the name "Windows 7 next OS", but Steve Cranehans Vice President of Mobile Computing said "This isIt is "technology changeover" beyond the major update"We say that. Once Microsoft finished converting the architecture of the OS which was DOS (Windows 9x series) to NT after 8 years from the Windows NT 3.1 release in 1993 to Windows XP (NT 5.1) in 2001 to 8 years. It is the same level.

ByColdacid

Most business users will continue to use their browsers by running Win32 applications on the desktop until around 2015 when Windows 8 is being adopted, but analysts believe that these users will use Win32 applications by 2020 I predict that time will be less than 10%. By this time, most applications and browsers will be run from Metro and Win32 desktop applications will be used only for Server-Based-Computing (SBC) and Virtual Desktop.

It seems that there is a considerable gap between the position of Windows 8 from the viewpoint of the user and Microsoft's idea, but when it says so, the reason why we abandoned the desktop so far, and has been fortifying Metron completely refreshed somehow Convinced.

There is certainly the aspect that the positioning of the PC has changed since the advent of smartphones, especially the iPhone, certainly, after three years, five years from now, let's guess what the personal environment around you is like, Even when looking back in the future, it seems that it will only be at the level of "I could not have predicted at that time".