Friday, February 18, 2011

A Windows 8 tablet in Q1 2012? Hmmm... | ZDNet

Check the link below for a timely Mary-Jo Foley reality check

What if Microsoft is planning to deliver the system-on-a-chip version of Windows 8 first? The company is believed to have been working on a port of Windows to ARM for several years now, starting with the rumored “LongARM” project. So what if the SoC version of “Windows Next” that Microsoft showed off at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this past January was a lot further along than many think? Microsoft has said it plans to deliver Windows “Next” — which is widely assumed to be the same as Windows 8 by most sane and rational people — on Soc chips from Intel, AMD and ARM.

A Windows 8 tablet in Q1 2012? Hmmm... | ZDNet

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