Microsoft starts shipping its Windows on Arm device for developers: Windows Dev Kit 2023

[RV_]

Wow! This is new!

Excerpt:

"Microsoft's 'Project Volterra' $599 device for developing, testing and running Windows-on-Arm apps is shipping in eight countries, starting today.

"Project Volterra," Microsoft's device aimed at developers interested in building, testing and running native Windows on Arm apps, is shipping as of today, October 24. Microsoft is counting on the new $599 device to attract more developers to build native Windows on Arm apps, especially AI apps which take advantage of the built-in neural-processing unit in the Qualcomm platform.

Windows Dev Kit 2023, as the new mini-PC is known, runs the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 CPU and comes with 32 GB of RAM, 512 GB of storage, Wi-Fi 6, physical Ethernet, three USB-A, two USB-C and one mini-display ports. Users can drive up to three external monitors simultaneously (including two at 4K 60Hz). The device is available starting today in eight countries: Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom and United States. (Beyond the $599 for the single configuration, pricing will vary by market availability, a spokesperson said.)

To try to encourage more developers to target the Windows on Arm platform, over the past five months, Microsoft has released previews of a number of its own tools ported to Arm, including Visual Studio 2022 (preview), the Windows App SDK (preview) and libraries including VC++ Runtime and .NET 7 (preview). Azure VMs featuring the Ampere Altra Arm-based processor (which support various Linux distributions, plus preview releases of Windows 11 Pro and Enterprise). The company also ported Teams, Arm64 Office, Edge, Defender for Endpoint and OneDrive Sync so they work on Arm natively."

Source:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-starts-shipping-its-windows-on-arm-device-for-developers-windows-dev-kit-2023/?ftag=TREc64629f&bhid={%24external_id}&mid={%24MESSAGE_ID}&cid={%24contact_id}