Microsoft skeleton to deliver a special chronicle of Windows for low-power mobile gadgets similar to tablets at next month's Consumer Electronics Show, according to multi-part reports.
The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg affirm to have both listened that Microsoft will confer a chronicle of Windows that supports mobile ARM chips and other low-power processors. The Journal adds that the new Windows OS isn't approaching to be existing for two years.
My present greeting to these reports: WTF?
Microsoft already has a new chronicle of Windows written for mobile devices: Windows Phone 7. The firm hired new executives, outlayed million of dollars on growth facilities, rethought its whole mobile plan and took an whole year to whip up a touch-friendly mobile OS from graze .
In conditions of power and features, Windows Phone 7 hasn't held up with Android or iOS yet, but it's a plain start. It's of course more fit for tabletization than the desktop Windows. There are many reasons because a Windows 7- formed inscription creates no clarity .
Windows Phone 7 is moreover light-years forward of Microsoft's formerly mobile OS, Windows Mobile, to say nothing of Windows CE, Microsoft's initial mobile OS, that lives on as an "embedded" OS powering sanatorium devices, production equipment, point-of-sale devices, and the like.
So because in the world would Microsoft hurl more allowance and gift at a new mobile chronicle of Windows when it's already done great progress on a newer, improved one?
I similar to the well-informed Mary Jo Foley's doubtful understand of the headlines . She thinks that Microsoft will publicize a new chronicle of Windows Embedded Compact , a trimmed-down chronicle of Windows CE done mainly for craving devices. That OS, that is now in beta, already runs on ARM, and might make a fitting stage for Windows-powered tablets, mainly the type trustworthy to your UPS driver's barcode scanner.
Among other points, Foley records that the timing is right, and that Microsoft voiced inscription allies progressing this year who are already in the business of creation Windows Embedded Compact devices.
That result would make a lot more clarity to me, and if Foley's right, Microsoft's "tablet" headlines won't be as interesting is to median device geek hurt for a Microsoft-powered iPad contestant (unless you have a urinary tract disorder ).
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Photo: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks up the products at CES 2010.
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