Just select what features you want for a new device, click build, and a build rolls out. WCOS would allow MS internally to create a SKU for a new device category very easily. Currently there's kind of a fixed list of SKUs. You probably don't need server features on an XBOX, or Hyper-V or Defender on an IOT device. You see, PC Windows, Windows 10X, XBOX, IOT, Mobile all have different features. WCOS was more of an attempt to make Windows more modular and allowed to create new SKUs "on the fly" without programming work. I think it was cancelled but I'm not sure (hard to keep track with all these fancy ideas being developed and then cancelled ). exist on multiple platforms anyway and they should have the same look and feel everywhere. I think the advantage of this is that most stuff like (live) tiles, context menus, app drawer, start screen, notification area, etc. It would be the exact same code running on XBOX, PC, Windows Mobile, Surface Hub, POS, IOT. That was 1 shell that could also change the looks depending on the device or context, only now not limited to phone + display. This idea was later pushed further in CShell. Without external display you just have the regular phone UI, with display it changes shape into a desktop-like thing. This is so fascinating! I wonder if it has to do with the Windows Phone's Continuum feature? That's what it looks like, to me anyways.Ĭontinuum was 1 shell that looked differently depending on whether an external monitor is plugged in or not. Hope you found this piece of history as interesting as I did, but in my opinion, this is a very good start to hopefully a much better year. This release may not have much in terms of UX goodies, but it's going to be well preserved for the future, and perhaps some people will find out more things about it.Īs a bonus, a picture of a build of Polaris OS with an actual shell leaked along with this release:Īnd here is one of the wallpapers as well: Safe to say you may never see something from Polaris in the future, other than this. Polaris Office es una herramienta de gestión ofimática, que permitirá a sus usuarios crear y editar documentos de Office, y almacenarlos en la nube para poder acceder a ellos en cualquier momento y en cualquier lugar. Well PolarisOS was an extremely short lived version of Windows, might have been the most short lived one, and is as a consequence is a very rare collectible. You might also be interested in some prepatched files to disable signature verification/umci. If you try this on a phone, you will have to get rid of Platform Manifests (present on EFIESP\efi\microsoft\boot\platformmanifest) and be extra careful with the phone partitions, which shouldn't be altered in any way other than mainos and data and some of efiesp. It is certainly a variant of TShell (which is terminal shell over telnet, like on good old Windows Phone) but unfortunately none of my older TShell tools work with this build. I haven't figured out yet how to properly use the diagnostic interface. You will really need drivers, as despite this having no shell, it does require you to provide a valid GPU driver, and you may want USB to work for diagnostic. With the release, is a readme attached if you ever feel like booting this. The current version key, showing Polaris as the 'edition' name The fallback UI you get thrown into, when no shell/composer is present on the device The name used on the boot entry is Windows OneCore 10 Now, here are some actual pictures i took, of what could be taken: Wait a little while til a debug USB interface shows up on a connected computer over USB, from there you can potentially open a command prompt shell edit/view files and sideload applications. Press power once to shut down the device What does this mean? Well in short, if you ever get this to boot (i did this for you so you do not have to), you will get thrown into a placeholder "UI" (which consists basically of a different shade Windows logo.įrom there you can really only do two things: This version of Polaris unfortunately is either crippled due to the branch it comes from, or too early to actually contain an actual shell. What leaked is an ARM32 version of Polaris, Build 16299. Polaris would have introduced a completely redone UI, made using the Universal Windows Platform, on top of a new core/OS base, and the shell would have been most geared towards desktop/laptop users. Polaris was a very short lived variant of Windows Core OS (which is now the foundation of Windows 10X) meant for Desktops and Laptops. To download an update, select the corresponding Knowledge Base article in the following list, and then go to the "How to download and install the update" section of the article.Today on the FTP got uploaded a beta version of Microsoft ever so short lived ''Polaris'' OS. We recommend that you install all updates that apply to you. These updates are intended to help our customers keep their computers up to date. Microsoft released the following nonsecurity updates for Office in October 2023.
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