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Windows Already Up and Running On ARM Architecture

Posted by timothy on from the remember-apple-and-intel dept.

syngularyx writes "Over at Microsoft's MIX Developer Conference in sunny Las Vegas, Microsoft has demoed a new preview build of Internet Explorer 10 (which you too can take for a spin, if you feel so inclined), and also dropped a little premature Easter egg – the build of IE10, and the underlying Windows OS, were both running on a 1GHz ARM chip. Sneaky."

2 of 348 comments (clear)

  1. Re:can you hack the iphone / ipad to run windows 8 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Pure .NET apps should work though, which will assist Microsoft in eliminating non-managed languages.

  2. Re:Why is it sneaky? by Desler · · Score: 4, Informative

    He's calling bullshit the fact that Windows has no infrastructure for an ARM release. They already showed off Office for ARM months ago.