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Microsoft's ARM move is about offering the same Windows experience on all kinds of devices
If the interface looks familiar to you, that's because at this point we're looking at a new version of Windows beneath the current Windows 7 UI. No new Windows features are on display at this point, but Internet Explorer 9, and Office for ARM were the only apps on display -- as well as a recompiled Epson print driver which made a brief background appearance to spit out a short Word document. The demo on Nvidia's Tegra 2 hardware was particularly impressive, playing back the Iron Man 2 trailer in full HD without so much as a hiccup and running IE9 HTML5 demos with aplomb.
According to Ballmer, the move to embrace ARM is all about meeting customer expectations. Users increasingly expect the same experience on all their devices -- from desktop to laptop to smartphone. Windows, he said, can provide that experience, and Microsoft will continue working not only with ARM partners like Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments, but also x86 kingpins Intel and AMD to achieve their goal.
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Subscribe to commentsKeegdnaBJan 5th 2011 11:18PM
To me this says 2 things
1) Windows 8 will move to a more metro-like UI
2) Windows 8 will very likely have multple UIs for different form factors, hence the lack of announcement of a scaled-up WP7 for tablets OS.
They're taking a gamble since it probably won't make it to shelves until a year from now at the earliest, but if they can bide their time and if Windows 7 slates can get at least a fair amount of consumer adoption in the interim they're setting themselves up to have a big advantage over iOS, Android, and other "giant phone" tablet OSes.
patrickanthonyolsonJan 6th 2011 8:34AM
@KeegdnaB
I think its going to be the case that two OS interfaces will likely be MS's move.
( http://www.winrumors.com/new-windows-8-rumors-confirm-dual-user-interface/)
Which would make sense to me, cater to the hardware enthusiasts who configures his PC hardware and OS interface. While leaving mom and pop on a simpler unified interface ala IOS and Android OS.
Also making much more flexible for tablet interfacing environments.
I'm kind of glad that we will be seeing much more continuity from MS across all hardware.
Windows Phone 7 was very impressive too. Although, for some reason... DS has not posted anything regarding that segment. You'd think, considering they post just about every little fart Google makes outside of CES
SilverWaveJan 6th 2011 2:05PM
@KeegdnaB
Looks like they are running scared...
I wonder what their actual activation rates on the win phone are....
nikescarJan 6th 2011 11:37AM
You can pretty much count on an app store with game and apps that'll run on XNA and Silverlight for Win 8. That way devs wouldn't have to recompile applications for x86 and ARM.
the true shadowJan 6th 2011 7:43PM
All this is doing is making a large monopoly even larger. We don't need Microsoft, what we need is free, safe, open software that can do everything we want with no risk.
Like android and chromeos and ubuntu coming together to make an amazing collab, and the coolest ui evar.