News - Microsoft calls Intel Windows 8 claims ‘inaccurate’ and ‘misleading’

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[aidanjt]

Why, will Windows 8 for ARM be running win32 apps? I'd be impressed if it did, but I find it unlikely.

[Biscuit]

Why, will Windows 8 for ARM be running win32 apps? I'd be impressed if it did, but I find it unlikely.

Agreed, i think MS just got a bit miffed about Intel making statements on their behalf

[cheesemp]

I don't know. Running x86 on ARM wouldn't be quick but is possible - certainly ok for basic apps. Think about Apple and running PowerPC on intel.

The other big item is .NET - This could easily run on ARM (In fact I believe it does already - Mono?) - plenty of legacy .NET apps in business now.

[TheAnimus]

.Net already runs on a ARM in Windows CE, WinMo, and WP7 is using almost the very latest version, all be-it this is a subset library too keep the footprint down.

The point is plenty of .Net apps won't run because p/invoke or using physical machine code is just so damned easy, and people always assume its x86 even in this 64bit world.