{"id":44677,"date":"2012-03-01T09:02:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T07:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=44677"},"modified":"2012-03-01T09:31:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T07:31:55","slug":"windows-8-arm-users-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/44677-windows-8-arm-users-beware.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 ARM users beware"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft<\/a> has designed Windows<\/a> 8 to be the company\u2019s first operating system that will be able to run on X86 (Intel<\/a>, AMD<\/a>) architecture, as well as on ARM<\/a> architecture (Qualcomm<\/a>, Texas Instruments<\/a>, Nvidia<\/a>).<\/p>\n

However, there is one major difference between the two architectures, X86 will be the only architecture capable of running legacy applications.<\/p>\n

This means that applications designed to run on previous versions of Windows like 7 and Vista will not run on Windows 8 if the device is powered by an ARM chip.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you’re a professional and you have dedicated utilities, devices … all of that runs completely on an X86 Clover Trail [Intel] machine,\u201d said Steven Sinofsky<\/a>, president of the Windows division at Microsoft.<\/p>\n

This comment was backed up by Michael Angiulo<\/a>, a corporate vice president at Microsoft, who noted that, \u201cIntel Clover Trail [X86-based] can also run all of the desktop software that already exists for Windows PCs. So, on the Intel platform it’s really everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pair did have some good news for future Windows 8 application developers. “It’s the same app, it’s the same code. So, a developer that writes a Windows app and puts it up in the store can ship to customers of ARM systems as well as on X86 systems using the same code,” Angiulo concluded.<\/p>\n

Read the full story at: Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft executives made a startling revelation at the Mobile World Congress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":33840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[577,131,9375,123,3838,3524,9267,2928],"class_list":["post-44677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-amd","tag-intel","tag-michael-angiulo","tag-microsoft","tag-nvidia","tag-qualcomm","tag-steven-sinofsky","tag-texas-instruments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44685,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44677\/revisions\/44685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}