Microsoft takes an Arm architecture license

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argor

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Microsoft announced today that they have taken an Architecture license from ARM, only 4 other companies have done this, Qualcomm, Marvell, Infineon and an un-named one that is highly likely to be Apple.

It raises some interesting questions.

I wonder what this is likely to mean for the MSFT/Tegra tie up in the long term ?
Also, does it signal MSFT considering porting full windows to the Arm processor ?

Or maybe its got nothing to do with the handheld field and its microsoft looking at its data centres and doing a customised Arm server ?
http://dcsblog.burtongroup.com/data... and to modify the isa for example adding DRM
 
MS Phone 7 and Zune are ARM-based devices. No, full Windows will not be ported to ARM. :p

What the license means is that MS will likely design its own processors, somewhat like Apple does now.

IMO, ARM in the datacenter has nothing to do with this at all. Those low power/low cost systems run some flavor of *nix. Windows Server makes no economic sense in that segment, even if it could be ported.
 
Might have something to do with windows 7 compact embedded.
 
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