Windows Phone 8: Win8 Kernel and deep-hook Skype confirmed
Spilled details on Windows Phone 8 “Apollo” have opened the floodgates on Microsoft’s next significant update to its smartphone software, with more tidbits at the Windows 8 kernel based platform slipping out. Paul Thurrott confirms the shared kernel, together with the multi-core processor support, sensor fusion, security model, network, and video and graphics technologies from Windows 8, though says Skype will remain a separate app instead of baked in on the OS level. The Microsoft-owned VoIP service is “a separate but better app and never integrated into OS” Thurrott claims, and can remain “optional.” There seems to be some confusion around this; from what’s been said, it feels like Windows Phone 8 will offer deep-level hooks for Skype, allowing the app to integrate seamlessly alongside traditional voice calls so far as the user sees, though it won’t be bundled as a part of the OS itself. There’ll even be better use of [...]