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By: Highlights of 2011 on ARMdevices.net – ARMdevices.net

Highlights of 2011 on ARMdevices.net – ARMdevices.net — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:49:18 +0000

[…] Microsoft announces and shows Windows 8 on ARM All-in-one Motorola Atrix 4G launched Nvidia announces Project Denver (I think it may be their ARM […]

By: What to expect from Mobile World Congress – ARMdevices.net

What to expect from Mobile World Congress – ARMdevices.net — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 02:06:09 +0000

[…] It would be nice to test some Windows 7/8 ARM demonstrations. Microsoft can do a good job porting all the apps and fixing up all the necessary drivers. […]

By: My Top-20 CES 2011 videos – ARMdevices.net

My Top-20 CES 2011 videos – ARMdevices.net — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 06:21:15 +0000

[…] Windows on ARM, there were no booth demos yet, but the excitement at Steve Ballmer’s keynote was insane, […]

By: ARM and the long tail of Acorns RISC computers « Beyond the keyboard

ARM and the long tail of Acorns RISC computers « Beyond the keyboard — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:03:07 +0000

[…] 8 to run on ARM – According to this release – and in this video with Steve Ballmer Microsoft demoed the next version of Windows, Windows 8: “System On a Chip” on an ARM […]

By: Warrenbzf

Warrenbzf — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:21:00 +0000

x86 apps won’t work out-of-the-box on ARM computers like it did on the Intel Atom computer. I don’t think it’s as easy as simply recompiling it, but at least you don’t have to rewrite everything.

If I were there I would cheered when they started demonstrating the Windows base OS working on the ARM computer. That’s pretty cool. They did that with Alpha CPU’s on NT 4.0, which is Windows 7’s biological great grandfather. Still pretty cool, and exciting.

I’m still partial to Android myself. Microsoft and Apple have a vested interest in keeping the status quo as much as they possibly can. So I’m betting Google Android will be the way to go, because they don’t have any legacy IBM type culture yet.

By: markc

markc — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 06:09:00 +0000

This is a disaster for linux 🙁

By: Phlegon

Phlegon — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:21:00 +0000

Very interesting indeed. The giant is certainly not sleeping. Microsoft is adapting quickly to a changing market and It does look like they are ready to unyoke themselves from x86 processors. I view this with mixed feelings, cos I really want opensource OSes like ubuntu to take off properly for ARM architectures and hope microsoft windows repackaging for ARM won’t hinder that further.