No Windows 7 for ARM processors

The idea runs from the advent of smartphones and netbooks, ultraportables these machines at low prices: Microsoft could he not one day exception to the rule that the desktop versions of Windows only runs on x86 processors for s to adapt to the growing power of chips based on ARM architecture? Asked many times, the world number one publisher has always said no, this was not his intention, and just confirmed again through Mike Nash, vice president in charge of strategy Windows platform at Microsoft, interviewed by the magazine Taiwanese Digitimes.

For now, the ARM chips are mainly used in the music players and mobile phones like smartphones, but tomorrow they could make their entry into the world of PC, implemented in machine type or netbook SmartBook. The latter would adopt such Snapdragon, Qualcomm's platform (photo), or Tegra, chip all-in-One Mobile NVIDIA. Today, manufacturers wishing to make use of ARM processors have no choice but to turn to systems like Linux, Android or Windows CE, since it is impossible to run Windows XP or Windows 7 on such platforms.

For now, it is not expected to give change, assured Mike Nash. Why? Today, he believes it is important that as different devices technically a netbook equipped with an Atom and SmartBook based on ARM provides features and capabilities different techniques. It remains to be seen how long the equation will remain balanced and if Microsoft does not like the bed of competing solutions, chief among which the Google Android.