Microsoft's Upcoming iPad Killers

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Window 8 mwould probaly dominate the PC market. However, it would have to take on the iPad . The strategy is to make Window 8 tablets that are competitve with the iPad in terms of battery life by using an ARM chip.

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There will be a separate version of Windows called "Windows On ARM," not "Windows 8 for ARM" ... or "Windows 8" anything for that matter. It is not the same as Windows 8 for traditional PCs, but shares a lot of code and components.


It will run a special version of Office. There will be versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for Windows On ARM. The apps will be designed to work on touch screens, will have full document compatibility with traditional versions of Office, and will use a lot less power than their equivalents for regular PCs.

There will be a desktop mode for Office and IE. As we've written before, Windows 8 has a split personality — there's a desktop interface that will work and look a lot like Windows 7, and a new "Metro" interface that is designed for touch. (The "Metro" interface is what Microsoft has demonstrated so far — the big colorful icons and sliding menus are a highlight.) There was speculation that Windows On ARM would run ONLY Metro style apps. That's mostly true, but Office and Internet Explorer will also be available in desktop mode.
It will ship around the same time as regular Windows 8. That is the "collective goal" of Microsoft and its hardware partners.
The hardware and software will be tightly integrated. This makes perfect sense — Microsoft can't compete with the iPad on ease of use unless it creates a similar end-to-end experience. So Microsoft has been working closely with all parts of the hardware chain, from suppliers to PC manufacturers. Also, you won't be able to buy Windows for ARM as a separate operating system to install on your own PC — it will only ship on new machines. Microsoft will update it over the Internet automatically. Sinofsky writes "Delivering WOA PCs is a partnership with PC manufacturers who bring their expertise in manufacturing, system engineering, and industrial design and combine that with the engineering work of ARM partners to develop a complete PC."
You won't power these things off. Windows On ARM PCs will be like other smartphones and tablets — the screen will go dark and it will enter a low-power mode. But you'll probably never turn it off.

There will be ways for developers to write for both platforms at once. This is complicated, and gets into developer-speak, but basically if you're using an abstracted or "high-level" programming language, such as C#, Visual Basic, XAML (all Microsoft-specific) or JavaScript and HTML5 (common Web-standard languages), then you can write one "Metro" style program and have it automatically work on both ARM-based devices and traditional PCs. If you want to write more directly to the hardware using C or C++, you'll have to do some extra work.
It will not be possible to port existing Windows apps to the new platform. It's a total rewrite.
Windows On A devices will be clearly laRMbeled. So customers will know that they're buying a device that does not run old Windows apps.
Apps will be available ONLY through Windows directly (built-in) or the Windows Store. Microsoft had already said this would be the case for Metro apps, but it's apparently the case for all Windows On ARM apps — again, very much like Apple does with the iPad and App Store

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