Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Windows already up and running on ARM architecture

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.
Back at CES Microsoft announced that they would be working hard to introduce support for the increasingly popular ARM architecture, which provides the foundation for the Qualcomm Snapdragons, Apple A5s and Samsung Hummingbirds of this world. Essentially if you own a mobile device, it’s almost certainly powered by an ARM-based chip.

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