In a post on its ‘Building Windows 8′ blog, computer powerhouse Microsoft has released details of how Windows 8 will offer improved wireless broadband connectivity. Devices and networking team program manager Billy Anders wrote about how the company has been improving mobile broadband connectivity management to provide users with comprehensive access to wireless broadband.

Anders wrote: “We looked at the fundamentals of wireless connectivity and re-engineered Windows 8 for a mobile and wireless future, going beyond incremental improvements.”

The company included mobile broadband connectivity functions in Windows 7 but third-party software and drivers for USB broadband devices made connecting a chore. To solve this, Microsoft worked with mobile broadband hardware producers to develop a driver that is compatible with all mobile broadband devices, allowing the company to integrate mobile broadband alongside the more commonplace Wi-Fi. With connectivity to both Wi-Fi and mobile broadband available, Windows 8 customers will be in the enviable position of having almost unlimited broadband access available to them.

Ander also said: “We knew that if we were to give you true mobility, that Wi-Fi alone would not be enough. Therefore, for Windows 8, we fully developed and integrated mobile broadband (MB) as a first-class connectivity experience within Windows – right alongside Wi-Fi,”

A major improvement will be in the managing of mobile broadband connections. Users will be able to easily monitor their data usage, which in turn will help to keep costs down as users will be able to see when they are at risk of exceeding their data allowance.

Windows 8 Task Manager will also allow users to see how much of their mobile data allowance each open application has used. This will help users learn which programs use the most of their data allowance, which will also help user to keep the cost of browsing and downloading as low as possible.