Windows 8 on ARM SoC

Windows invariably meant the OS for the x86 processor. that, in turn, largely meant processor chips from Intel. This is picture that started right from the time PC revolution started and continued until now. For a brief time the Windows NT was offered in PowePC , MIPS and Alpha processors. None of the chips achieve any kind of significant numbers and when the next version came out, these supports were not there.

 This definitely looks like the point when the WINTEL stranglehold on the huge majority (remember, AMD too plays!) of PCs might change. Not too soon though, this may take a while.

Faster Forward - Microsoft to ship Windows for ARM processors

Android is Moving into Sub-laptop Space

When Android came out on a cell phone, it was quite a sensation. Within a couple of years now, it seems to be moving into these small formfactor laptops. Gartner reported from Computex 2009 in Taiwan that Android is set to move into this space certainly. Computex showed quite a few exaples of these products that used Android.

This space actually includes couple of types of products. The netbooks, 10 inch display with Atom on the inside kind of products that are primarily aimed at being a net aid. These products are actually PCs with scaled down performance, being the same Wintel combination. In fact lot of people are seeing these as truly affordable laptops.

The other product category in the same display format are called smartbooks as these use the processors used in smartphones and giving you similar net access on the small notebook format.Thees are predominantly ARM processor based.

Examples on both kind of platforms were seen on the show floor, coupled with the fact that Microsft is not going to port windows 7 onto ARM, there's enough incentive for Goole to fill that vacuum. Additionally ports to MIPs also were shown. Acer is even doing a x86 port of Android. So, what's going to stop Android! Let's watch and see, this is going to be interesting.