Windows 8 Pro SDK

[HCHTech]

So I was taking to the vendor of a POS system being proposed for a retail store customer of mine yesterday. Their spec sheet says they require Win 7 Pro and are not compatible with Win 8 Pro. When I asked about this, he said "Because Microsoft removed the SDK from the standard installation of Windows 8 Professional, it would require that every customer buy the SDK license for each workstation at a cost of $500 - so we decided to skip WIndows 8 support." He went on to say that this was changed for Windows 10 and they will definitely support that.

Although my BS meter is going off, I didn't have any ammunition to challenge his statement and frankly, I guess it doesn't matter to me either way. Does anyone know if this is a real thing, or as I suspect, was this guy was just trying to justify a shortcoming in their development?

 

[nlinecomputers]

Total BS. Microsoft OS SDKs have always been free. There is no cost to have an SDK license. You can download it right here. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/hh852363.aspx

Now had he said that market share of Windows 8 is so small that it wasn't worth their time to develop apps for it I would have agreed. It is also likely that the software will run just fine on Windows 8 as is. I've yet to find something that works on 7 that doesn't work on 8.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Also I need to double check but I don't recall seeing the Windows 7 SDK on any ISO. You have to download it from MSDN. But it too is just as free.

 

[Markverhyden]

I've never seen any OS SDK being included with the core OS distro. It's always been a separate, and free, download.

 

[HCHTech]

Thanks for confirming. I guess my BS meter is still working.