Over on the building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft have announced that they will have robust USB 3.0 support in Windows 8. To be honest this is a bit of a no-brainer, I mean why wouldn’t Microsoft’s newest OS not support the most recent version of USB? This is good news for everyone really. USB 3.0 is up to 10 times faster than the current USB 2.0 standard that we all use. It can reach speeds of up to 5 Gbit/s. It also has improved power management that results in longer battery life.
The post written by Dennis Flanagan who is the Director of Program Management for the Devices and Networking group, goes into great detail about USB. He gives a brief history on USB and then how Microsoft worked to bring USB 3.0 support to Windows 8.
It makes perfect sense for Microsoft to bring USB 3.0 to Windows 8, because as Flanagan points out, USB 3.0 is going to be big. By 2015 all PCs sold will have USB 3.0 ports and there will be around 2 billion USB 3.0 devices sold that year alone.
This new “Superspeed” USB standard will allow you to copy a high definition movie from a USB storage drive in about 80 seconds instead of the 15 minutes it currently takes for USB 2.0. Now that is a lot quicker. The new specification also provides 80% more power than USB 2.0 which means that it will be a lot faster charging connected devices.
Of course Microsoft are going to continue supporting the older types of USB, they have to really. They’ve created a brand new Microsoft USB Test Tool to ensure everything works perfectly.
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