Microsoft began recruiting for Windows 8

According to Microsoft's information on the recruitment website, Microsoft has begun to recruit for the development of the next-generation operating system Windows8. The Windows fan site CodenameWindows found this job advertisement. The content of the advertisement is a recruitment software development engineer. The relevant work includes the development of the third-party software update program and the virtual machine-related programming work. The employer is the Windows update customer team. In addition, it is mentioned in the job advertisement that this work will be related to Windows 8.

It seems that after Microsoft introduced Windows 7, it has already begun to prepare for the development of Windows7 SP1 and the next-generation operating system Windows8. The following is the original text of this job advertisement:

Job Category: Software Engineering: Development
Location: United States, WA, Redmond
Job ID: 701629 7857
Division: Server & Tools Business

This is a great time to join us. Our team owns the Windows Update Client and our code delivers software and updates to over 600 million computers. We just finished up work on Windows 7, and are pushing forth on Windows 8 planning and preparation. There are opportunities to work on a number of hard problems, including third-party application updating, updating virtual machines while they're turned off (turns out this is pretty hard!), and conveying full applications, among To help us charge full steam on these fronts, we are looking for skilled and passionate software engineers.

As part of this team, you will help shape Windows 8. Components of our code include a core agent that Runs as an NT service, an API layer and a UI application. We talk to the update servers usin g web services and we have special protocols in place to deal with the massive scale of the system.