After previewing the system at the Build conference in May, Microsoft is now introducing a new device designed for Arm development: Project Volterra has been officially released.
TL;DR: The Windows Dev Kit 2023 is a new Mac Mini-like mini PC aimed at developers who code Windows on Arm applications. Decent specs and a lot of RAM should please app developers while Microsoft is pursuing its world conquest through AI and cloud VMs.
After previewing the system at the Build conference in May, Microsoft is now introducing a new device designed for Arm development: Project Volterra has been officially released as the Windows Dev Kit 2023, a compact PC that contains – according to Microsoft – everything developers need to create apps for the Arm edition of Windows.
Windows Dev Kit 2023 has been «purpose-built» to help developers create Windows apps for Arm, says Microsoft. The device is based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 SoC (or «Compute Platform» as the latest digerati jargon goes), and it is equipped with 32GB of RAM and 512GB of «fast» NVMe storage.
