Speed is one of the most important factors when it comes to evaluating the data transfer technology. When a new technology that promises better speeds for data transfer comes into the fore, it is only natural for the older technologies to take the backseat. It has been a similar tale in the case of USB 2.0 too. With the emergence of the USB 3.0, it has taken somewhat a limited role in the talks among the current technologies.
USB 3.0 in Windows 8
When it comes to current technologies, there is nothing more recent and hyped up than the recent release of the Windows 8 operating system by Microsoft. Microsoft has revealed that the Windows 8 operating system will support all major and latest hardware technologies with the Windows 8 drivers making sure that all of the major technologies are accounted for. The developers at Windows 8 have been gracious enough to share with us the information regarding the work that was done to integrate “SuperSpeed” USB 3.0 into the Windows 8 operating system.
Here are some excerpts from the Windows Team Blog that sheds some light on this development, “To create a brand new USB software stack, we had to start work early. If we waited for hardware to be available we would be too late to support the budding USB 3.0 ecosystem. We decided to start before there were any USB 3.0 devices by building ‘virtual’ devices”. It just shows the amount of confidence the team had in the future of USB 3.0 and that they firmly believed that the Windows 8 launched with all the latest features integrated in it. They started the work on USB 3.0 even before there were any devices available for them to work upon and they even had to rely upon virtual devices to check the functionality of the USB 3.0.
With the help of latest Windows 8 drivers, you will be able to work with most of the latest and useful software and hardware that are available in the market. However, with the USB 3.0, it is a special case and one which has to be integrated by the manufacturer itself. Reading the Windows Team Blog will give an idea about the work done behind the scenes at Microsoft to perfect the operating system.
