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Tuesday 23 October 2012

Windows 8 on ARM base solution - Moving away from the x86-only approach

By Oded Amir


Microsoft is planning to exhibit her Windows 8 for ARM base devices. The 1st time that Microsoft is moving away from the x86-only approach. Actually a giant change in the inserted PC market

The Statement is going to take place at the end of October. Will this announcement will change the market that until today it's that the on Apple OS6 and the Android which is a subset of Linux were the dominators in the market or maybe the sole operating system excluding Edge. Are we going to be in a position to use our mobiles and inserted computer devices same as we are operating with our Windows base desktop, workstations and mobile? I sure hope therefore due the incontrovertible fact the Smartphone users are battling with simple jobs as removing or edit items or files. Did you notice that also?

Microsoft is surely going to enter a field that for a few years it seems that was avoided by her. Fields like like the tablet market, phone market, and inserted market. In a brief period time we will be capable of finding O. S will run on ARM processors, supplied by companies such as TI, Nvidia, and Qualcomm.

It was obligatory and expected nonetheless , due to two principal reasons. First, ARM processors got more powerful, and 2nd, there are no x86 processors that are acceptable to the wants of tablets today.

ARM has indeed become powerful enough to run theWindows on it. It is no longer the processor that used to trade in performance for energy usage. With the arrival of dual-core ARM Cortex CPUs â€" cranking speeds above 1GHz and supported by leading vendors like Freescale, Nvidia, Qualcomm, TI, and so on â€" ARM has evidently come a great distance from its StrongARM days. It has now provided an equivalent alternative choice to the x86.

We aren't sure yet and we didn't get all the answer from Microsoft on the WIN8 and all his modules, but I am sure that Microsoft is back to answer to iPad and the Android-based tablet market. Though the Windows CE-based solutions so far were a little bit disappointed and did not able to accord a meaning full in the market.

I'm pretty sure the Embedded PERSONAL COMPUTER market eventually will change noticeably and Microsoft is going to play a leading role. Surely it'll affect Intel and AMD and I am asking myself is the definition WINTEL will be part of the Embedded Computer history. The only question is how long it will take.




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