Microsoft's long rumored dual-screen Andromeda phone may never gaze at light of day, even so, the related "Windows Core OS" project or WCOS, remains underway, and according to a job vacancy posted on LinkedIn, all is here Windows 10 devices and drivers.

The vacancy for any software engineering role serving the area around Redmond, spotted by Windows Latest, sheds some light on the amount Microsoft's priorities are with WCOS.

Softwareonlinedeal's authority on Microsoft, Mary Jo Foley, also has been tracking WCOS and related initiatives like OneCore in time and notes its Redmond's attempt to complete a common base for Windows on numerous platforms by modularizing the OS to ensure that it can work on phones, tablets, laptops and PCs, IoT devices additionally, the HoloLens.

WCOS isn't supposed run Win32 apps, but focuses on Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform apps for IoT, mobile, PC, Xbox, Surface Hub and HoloLens. Microsoft's other projects, C-Shell, or composable shell, endeavor to create a common shell that is on WCOS, while Polaris is definitely a desktop Shell based upon C-Shell that will carry WCOS.

All of these mystery projects, including WCOS, are directed at OEMs and developers other than end-users so Microsoft hasn't revealed much topic.

The LinkedIn-posted vacancy is made for a development manager of Microsoft's Device Platform team that could "define what should be carried out in modernizing our existing windows driver ecosystem including creating new products using Windows Core OS".

As Microsoft recently noted, that driver ecosystem is complex and contains 400,000 different drivers from hardware vendors that they needs to ensure mesh well with each and every new version of Windows 10.

The 780 platform team owns WCOS, provides the tools to construct and validate drivers for versions of Windows, and ensures Windows remains encouraging silicon maker partners and OEMs.

The organization manager will head up a small group of over 50 who find themselves organized into six core teams, including Devices and Drivers (DnD), Driver Developer Experience (DDX), OneCore, Hardware Lab Kit (HLK), Differentiated Devices co-engineering (DDC), along with Qualcomm co-engineering (QCC).

Descriptions belonging to the teams primarily show Microsoft is prioritizing problems with Windows 10 development internally make certain it is quickly adopted on new form factors, try not to dual-screen laptops Intel and Lenovo recently showed off, and other platforms, that include its ongoing Qualcomm Always Connected partnership for Windows 10 on Arm-based Snapdragon notebooks from HP and Lenovo.

QCC, as an illustration, works closely with Qualcomm on "supporting Reference platforms; fixing driver dependency issues; migrating driver packaging; fixing update issues".

DDC meanwhile "owns enablement work between new device form factors and emerging versions of Windows (OneCore, WCOS, etc.) so that you can inform improvements needed to support OEMs first method same emerging version."

DDC also cooks "first time" software and hardware (HW) integration efforts of "nascent versions of Windows running on innovative HW designs".

Meanwhile, the "OneCore team Owns WCOS SKU and OS layering efforts (GameCore, Onecore/OnecoreUAP) APISets, Flexible Links, Windows Compositional Database (WCD), and driving cross org WCOS efforts, like state separation."