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Microsoft Ready To Talk Windows On ARM

Posted by timothy on from the hole-in-the-marketshare-dike dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After many months of working in secret, Microsoft is nearly ready to start talking about its plans to bring Windows to ARM-based processors. However, while the company is set to discuss the effort at next month's Consumer Electronics Show, there is still a lot that must be done before such products can hit the market. Among the steps needed is for hardware makers to create ARM-compatible drivers, a time-consuming effort that explains in part why Microsoft is talking about the initiative well ahead of any products being ready. Meanwhile, Ubuntu is already starting to ship on some ARM devices and running on many others."

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  1. Does this article really need to mention ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Meanwhile, many other Linux distros have been shipping on ARM devices since before Ubuntu was a distribution.