Windows Already Up and Running On ARM Architecture 348
syngularyx writes "Over at Microsoft's MIX Developer Conference in sunny Las Vegas, Microsoft has demoed a new preview build of Internet Explorer 10 (which you too can take for a spin, if you feel so inclined), and also dropped a little premature Easter egg – the build of IE10, and the underlying Windows OS, were both running on a 1GHz ARM chip. Sneaky."
Compatibility? (Score:5, Funny)
How are they going to make it compatible with all those viruses and trojans out there?
Re:IE 10 Already? (Score:5, Funny)
Pfft. That's nothing. My browser release goes all the way to 11. It also supports the "beating-a-dead-meme" tag.
Re:can you hack the iphone / ipad to run windows 8 (Score:2, Funny)
CLR/.Net stuff should run fine I imagine. Also, I remember Alpha had FX32! which would run x86 code at decent speeds using static recompilation and that was many years ago now.
Re:Computer vs Big Phone (Score:5, Funny)
OS is short for operating system. Flash has nothing to do with the operating system.
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