Microsoft’s Project Zenith is a ‘distraction-free Windows experience’ for developers

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Tom Warren is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years.

Microsoft is giving its developer-optimized Windows experience a name: Project Zenith. While the software maker originally announced a similar developer-optimized Windows effort at Build earlier this year, Project Zenith is designed for new developer-focused devices with 64GB or more of unified memory.

“Project Zenith devices come with a preconfigured Windows setup for development and a set of tools curated for what developers reach for first,” explains Logan Iyer, CVP of Windows platform and developer at Microsoft. “On these devices, developers can run 30B+ parameter models locally and unmetered — accelerating experimentation while helping reduce reliance on metered cloud tokens.”

AMD announced the first Project Zenith device on stage at IFA earlier today, a miniature PC powered by Ryzen AI Halo chips. There will...

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