ARM-Based Windows 8 Will Not Run x86 Applications.

[ErosOlmi]

What a shame.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20110919125514_Microsoft_Confirms_ARM_Based_Systems_Will_Not_Run_x86_Applications.html
(http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20110919125514_Microsoft_Confirms_ARM_Based_Systems_Will_Not_Run_x86_Applications.html)

http://www.infoworld.com/d/microsoft-windows/windows-8-arm-chips-it-was-too-good-be-true-173265

[Charles Pegge]

Back In 1988 A DOS emulation was available for running PC applications on the Archimedes (4 Meg ARM). It seemed to run about 5 times slower than on a typical PC of that era, but it was useable.

Charles

[kryton9]

It doesn't surprise me Eros, but Microsoft is not alone in this one. Google hasn't got it right with Android and from what I can tell with ChromeOS. I don't know why HP dumped WebOS so quickly, it seemed like a great plan. WebOS would come with every HP machine in dual boot mode, then you could use the same OS on all sized devices and platforms. So when HP dropped the bomb about dumping WebOS so quickly that left everything wide open for Microsoft to fire the killing shot with win8 on all sized devices including arm, but with this decision they are not firing that winning shot, but they are not at risk anymore from Google for the time being and no one else is left.

I thought last year Google could really come up with the game changer, but they haven't. Android is not a productivity platform but a consumer one and then not what you would think, at least at these versions. So Microsoft can do what it wants again for years to come, they dodged the fiasco years of Vista and poor mobile acceptance in iOS and Android era.