14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft’s Arcadia project that would allow streaming of games and apps to Windows devices is still in the works, and a post on the Microsoft Careers page is living proof.
Redmond is now looking for software engineers who would help continue development of what Microsoft calls a “product that was never done before” and which would allow the company to continue its transition to a mobile-first, cloud-first world.
News on Arcadia first emerged in December last year, when sources from within the company revealed a project that was supposed to help stream games and apps from Xbox or PCs using cloud power to a number of other devices, including phones. Redmond demonstrated the technology during its Windows 10 event on January 21 in Redmond, but no release details were provided at that moment.
Now Microsoft is looking for software engineers who would help continue work on Arcadia on Windows Phone, but just like before, the amount of information is very limited.
“New technology to understand consumer and product health”
In the job ad posted on Microsoft Careers (via @h0x0d), the company says that the new employees would have to use “new data technologies to understand consumers and product health” and would contribute to developing technologies that “will delight our end users on Windows Mobile.”
“We use the best data tools available from both the Open Source community and Microsoft, on which we have built a highly elastic, near real time Arcadia data platform. We are implementing software health and consumer satisfaction models based on this data, to test in production and stabilize our deliverables incrementally,” the software giant says.
The next OS version for Microsoft’s smartphones, called Windows 10 for phones, will arrive later this year, and it’s believe that such technologies would be part of this release.
Right now, it’s too early to discuss about this implementation, but there’s no doubt that the Arcadia project lives on at Microsoft, so expect more info to surface soon.