Recently Microsoft demonstrates tablets based on ARM processors
from Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Nvidia. Tablets with those processors
will not run so-called Intel "x86" legacy software (though they will
run a full version of Office 15). Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky wrote
about this on
February 9. "If you need to run existing x86/64 (Intel-based) software,
then you will be best served with Windows 8 on x86/64." And he reiterated
this at
Mobile World Congress on Wednesday.
In short, if you're going to buy a Windows 8 tablet, why not buy
one that at least offers the option of running the galactic library of Windows
apps? Not to mention that one big reason people use Windows as it runs all of
those applications people come to love.
Microsoft's Sinofsky said that. "We do want to assure you
that, when a consumer buys a WOA (Windows on ARM) PC, it will be clearly labeled
and branded so as to avoid potential confusion with Windows 8 on x86/64,"
he wrote. So, Does legacy not really matter any more? i.e., it's old software
not written for touch anyway? Will most consumers be starting with a clean
slate or be more concerned about other features and/or capabilities?
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