Microsoft has finally broken its silence on Windows Blue, the long-rumoured but never-announced update for Windows 8.
Whispers about Windows Blue started up months ago, egged on by slip-ups in Microsoft job postings and interviews that mentioned the update by name. Speculation reached a fever pitch this weekend when an early build of Windows Blue hit file-sharing sites, complete with a cornucopia of fresh features that make the modern-style Start screen more handy-dandy than ever before.
On Tuesday, Frank X. Shaw, the corporate vice president of corporate communications at Microsoft, made the first official mention of Windows Blue in a TechNet blog post.
While Shaw didn’t disclose exactly which services will be receiving a Blue update – scuttlebutt says Windows 8, Windows RT, Windows Phone 8, Windows Server, and multiple online services are all being targeted for coordinated updates – or even what Blue really is, he does say that a "continuous development cycle is the new normal across Microsoft.
"Our product groups are also taking a unified planning approach so people get what they want – all of their devices, apps and services working together wherever they are and for whatever they are doing," Shaw wrote.
Indeed, one of the major rumours about Windows Blue is that it will make cross-platform app development easier. It is expected more will be revealed at Microsoft’s Build developer conference in San Francisco on 26-28 June.
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