Extreme Tech: Fresh off the block from Computex, Microsoft’s engineers at the Building Windows 8 blog have unleashed another blog post. The new details concern Windows 8′s audio/visual playback engines, format support, and feature sets. As Windows 8 MC Steven Sinofsky notes, video playback has changed considerably in the past few years, and Windows 8 is designed to support the shifting models.
The cloud storage platform will drop support for older versions of Windows in early 2022.
Microsoft responded with Windows 8 and its Surface RT tablet.
In the earliest days of the Surface, it was hard to shake the notion that the line was something of a reference design for Windows 8.