Apps for Windows Phone 8 can only be developed on a computer with Windows 8. That now appears to be Microsoft the software development kit has put online. Windows 7, Windows RT, Mac OS X and Linux are not supported.
For the emulator even Windows 8 Pro is required, as is apparent from the requirements that Microsoft has published. Also are a processor with 64-bitsondersteuning and a ram size of at least 4GB is needed. Thus are the requirements higher than with the sdk for Windows Phone 7.5, which also runs on Vista and 7, and 32-bit also supports.
Microsoft has made the release of the sdk long delayed, allowing the release of the operating system, this week, almost no apps are optimized for the new mobile OS. Apps made for Windows Phone 7.5 running on Windows Phone 8 in some devices, the black bars to see and make the apps do not use new functionality, such as nfc. Microsoft introduced Windows Phone 8 Monday night.
The first device with Windows Phone 8, the HTC Windows Phone 8X, comes this weekend in the Netherlands. The Samsung Ativ S will follow later in november, just like the HTC 8S, while the Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 only at the end of november or beginning of december in the Netherlands come on the market.
Windows Phone 8 is based on the NT kernel of Windows 8, instead of the CE kernel, that since year and day for Windows Phone was used. Therefore, there is support for multicore processors, while also screens with high resolutions supported. Tweakers published Monday evening a review of all the new features of Windows Phone 8, which showed that the operating system is much faster than version 7.5.