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[GP007]

Claiming their own sources, WPDang says they expect the Windows Phone 8 SDK to be released to developers in the last week of July. They note this is consistent with the pattern of previous releases like Mango and expect the software toolkit to still have a beta label attached.

There is however one hiccup – as far as we know to run the Windows Phone 8 emulator developers will need to be running Windows 8, which obviously presents a problem with the OS only set to be released closer to the end of the year.

Fortunately Windows Phone 8 handsets will not be launching with a limited library of apps, unlike the Windows 8 marketplace, given that they will be able to take advantage of more than 100,000 Windows Phone 7 apps.

Read more at WPDang here.

http://wmpoweruser.c...t-week-of-july/

[BajiRav]

I guess the emulator is based on Hyper-V (similar to Windows 8 AFAIK) and if true that will require Windows 8. (in-before metro haters)

[GP007]

I guess the emulator is based on Hyper-V (similar to Windows 8 AFAIK) and if true that will require Windows 8. (in-before metro haters)

Yeah, I think it's all but official, it needs Hyper-V, but this also means it's not a emulator and actually the full WP8 OS running in a VM, I think that's a big difference actually.

[jakem1]

There is however one hiccup – as far as we know to run the Windows Phone 8 emulator developers will need to be running Windows 8, which obviously presents a problem with the OS only set to be released closer to the end of the year.

That's what an MSDN subscription is for

[Cereal Bawks]

Yeah, I think it's all but official, it needs Hyper-V, but this also means it's not a emulator and actually the full WP8 OS running in a VM, I think that's a big difference actually.

The WP7 emulator is a x86 version running in a regular VM. With graphics acceleration at that.

I'm not sure what the point of requiring Hyper-V is, apart from getting an "enlightened" kernel (god, I hate that word) and extended paravirtualization. Maybe DX11 pseudo-acceleration via RemoteFX, but then again, RemoteFX doesn't ship with the client builds of Windows 8.