Windows 8 news

Rumors about Windows 8 have started flowing, and in the media, we've also seen early screenshots about the forthcoming product. Microsoft itself is officially quite quiet at this point, but for example from MSDN's Channel 9 you can already have some background information about the new operating system version.

Here is a fast summary of things that I've accumulated:

ARM processor support. This means that Windows 8 can run on tablets natively. For developers this means that native code applications will need to be compiled again (with a suitable compiler). On the other hand, .NET applications *should* run okay, but I haven't been able to verify this.
There most probably is going to be a dual-UI for Windows, one optimized for touch and on that is the traditional Windows look and feel. I would expect Windows 7 to be the base for the traditional look, but the new user interface seems have taken ideas from Windows Phone and the Metro UI.
The new Metro-like UI is most probably Silverlight, but could also be HTML 5. Or, a combination of both. Silverlight would make sense as it then you could write applications for both Windows Phone and Windows 8 from same code-base, but then again, HTML 5 would be truly cross-platform.

I pretty sure more news and tidbits will start appearing during the summer. And if you already haven't make sure you've marked the Build conference in September into your calendar.