根據微軟在招聘網站上刊登的信息，微軟已經開始為下一代操作系統Windows8的開發招兵買馬了。Windows愛好者網站 CodenameWindows發現了這則招聘廣告。廣告的內容是招聘軟件開發工程師，有關的工作內容則包括開發第三方軟件用的更新程序，以及虛擬機有關 的程序設計工作，用人單位則是Windows更新客戶團隊。此外，在招聘廣告中還提到這項工作將與Windows8有關。
看起來，微軟推出Windows7之後，已經開始忙於Windows7 SP1以及下一代操作系統Windows8的開發准備工作了。以下是這則招聘廣告的原文：
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 delivering full applications, among others. 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 using web services and we have special protocols in place to deal with the massive scale of the system.
