But the software giant wants to position its OS on mobility

The Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas had already given it Suitcases Wednesday evening, almost infinite queue, thousands of journalists are up in the cold to attend the opening of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Conference and to hear the address by Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, which traditionally gives the kickoff of the largest world exhibition devoted to electronics. Dressed in a blue shirt instead of his traditional red pullover, speaking very and surveying the podium, the leader to the bald head is is intended particularly offensive. As to symbolize the ability of Microsoft rebound, currently outpaced market shelves and "smartphones".

At the outset of his speech, Steve Ballmer Announces color: "regardless of the device that you use, now or in the future, Windows will be there to do work." Windows 7, released in October 2009, is clearly a success on PC: 7 licenses are sold per second and the operating system team now more than 20 of the PCs on the planet. But the software giant wants to position its OS on mobility. It is in this light that Wednesday, its leaders confirmed a rumor that kept to swell as the Electronics Show approached: the next version of Windows can rotate with ARM processors. So far, the operating system of Microsoft could piggyback only on architecture x 86, developed by Intel, its historic partner. This architecture currently team all of the PC technology ARM, developed and licensed by the British company of the same name found on mobile terminals, "smartphones" like tablets. The message is clear: Microsoft is not to ignore the potential of growth of the market of the shelves. Today, Windows 7 sentence indeed become an OS referent on these new products, despite the hundreds of models presented in the these this year.

A gap in the partnership

Work on an ARM architecture could help to bridge a part of the delay to Apple and the iPad, and side Google and its Android operating system, including a new version dedicated to tablets (Honeycomb) should leave by the end of the quarter. Developed by ARM processors are certainly less powerful than the traditional chips for PC, but little energy and therefore a better autonomy. Ideal for the ultramobilité. If Microsoft conducted demonstrations with Windows under ARM of these, no precise date of launch was communicated. Simply, Steve Sinofsky, the pattern of the Windows division, recalled that the development of a new operating system required usually between two and three years. Which suggests that the new version of Windows is not available before 2012, while Windows 7 is released in October 2009. "This announcement is especially for our partners, so that they can start working now", explained Steve Ballmer. Microsoft will be including to manufacturers of Nvidia, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments microprocessors. Officially, this new collaboration does not call into question the historical relationship tied with Intel, or ongoing projects with AMD. Rest that it opens a breach in the partnership between the two giants, which was the glory of the years PC during the past 30 years and that was called the Wintel association. Now, under ARM chip manufacturers will be able to settle on the world of the PC. Here are potentially challenger the monopoly of Intel on the PC and, above all, to open a very promising horizon for ARM. For evidence, the ARM course climbed Thursday morning of 10 on the London Stock Exchange...

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