Windows Phone 8: In un’offerta di lavoro, Microsoft menziona il nome del prossimo aggiornamento!

Microsoft ha fatto la sua prima menzione ufficiale di Windows Phone 8 in una offerta di lavoro per la ricerca di un  Software Development Engineer.

Nella descrizione che possiao leggere, vediamo come il posto di lavoro per lavorare viene descritto con la seguente frase “stirring up the out of box experience for Windows Phone 8 and is committed to building/improvinga compelling and dynamic high quality look and feel to our end user experience.”

Fino ad ora non sappiamo molto su Windows Phone 8, tranne che il sistema operativo utilizzerà il nome in codice “Apollo”.

Di seguito l’offerta di lavoro pubblicata da Microsoft:

“Software Development Engineer in Test, Senior – Windows Phone (765876) Job Apply now 
Date: Aug 16, 2011
Location: Redmond, WA, US
Job Category: Software Engineering: Test
Location: Redmond, WA, US
Job ID: 765876-53147
Division: Windows Phone Division


Want to be part of making Windows Phone 8 a reality? Want to work on a strategic and exciting product targeted at the next version of Windows? Then the Consumer eXperience (ConX) team is the place for you! The Windows Phone team is taking on a huge challenge stirring up the out of box experience for Windows Phone 8 and is committed to building/improving a compelling and dynamic high quality look and feel to our end user experience. 


This promises to be a volatile world churning within the OS, Phone 8 as well as our AUT (Application Under Test) that we’ll ship in the Windows Marketplace! Our test team needs a few more key folks to compliment the talent already onboarded. We are looking for experienced and intelligent engineers to join our team! Join us in our mission to bring the most compelling Windows Phone experience to customers to date! If this sounds like the next step for you in your career here at Microsoft, we would love to hear from you. We can talk about the opportunities and challenges we are facing right now to see if your passions are a fit.


Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a Computer Science or related technical discipline or equivalent experience

• 5 or more years of experience developing and testing software

• Strong coding skills in C#/C++/C or other OO language

• Demonstrable debugging prowess

• Excellent problem solving, testing and capacity to deal with the unknown

• Ability to independently take a feature area from inception to delivery”