Windows 7 Will Not Support ARM Yet

on 11/09/2009, filed in Home > Computers

With the netbook marking exploding, ARM processors should be gaining some traction, though it seems that there is a bit of bad news of folks who support the ARM processors. According to Mike Nash, Microsoft’s corporate vice president, Windows 7 will not support ARM processors, and Microsoft will continue with its strategic cooperation with Intel. Will this latest development turn netbook makers to alternatives such as Linux?

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ARM: ARM usually refers to the company ARM holdings, which is now famous for being behind the processor designs of the large majority (some say 98%) of the smartphones in the world. The ARM Architecture is a set of instructions based on the idea of RISC (reduced instruction set computer) which says that reducing the number of instructions to the most basic enables faster execution of each instruction. ARM Licenses the instruction set or complete processor design to its clients, which includes Nvidia, Qualcomm, Marvell, Freescale, TI, ST-Ericsson and many others.

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