Microsoft has finally and officially removed the wraps from the OS formerly known as Apollo. It's now just Windows Phone 8 and, at their "sneak peek" event we're learning a good bit about that OS, most notably that it contains a "shared core" with Windows 8! The idea here is that a common core makes life easier for developers and, therefore, better for consumers too. This means multi-core chips, up to and including 64 cores! Also, the work they've been doing means "multi-core first" -- in other words, Windows Phone 8 will be focused on multi-core device, not single-core. Two n
