{"id":273779,"date":"2011-01-13T14:35:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T14:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=46927"},"modified":"2011-01-13T14:35:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T14:35:05","slug":"windows-moves-on-to-mobile-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/13\/windows-moves-on-to-mobile-chips\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows moves on to mobile chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next release of Windows will be able to run on chips usually found in mobile phones.<br \/>\nA desktop version of Windows 7 was shown working with three processors built around designs from UK firm Arm.<br \/>\nThe demonstration is significant because before now Windows was closely connected with Intel-designed chips.<br \/>\nThe  announcement formed part of a keynote speech by Microsoft boss Steve  Ballmer that opened the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.<br \/>\nIn  his speech, Mr Ballmer said the &#8220;next version&#8221; of Windows, likely to be  Windows 8, would support what he called &#8220;systems on a chip&#8221; (SOC).<br \/>\nThese  are widely used in mobiles and other portable computers and collapse  the discrete chip components in desktops used to handle graphics and  data into a single package. In this way they reduce the power needed to  keep a device working and boost battery life.<br \/>\nAbout 80% of all mobiles, including Apple&#8217;s iPhone 4, are built around SOCs made from Arm designs.<br \/>\n<strong>Virtual being<\/strong><br \/>\nIn  recent months chip giants Intel and AMD have been working hard to turn  the chips used in desktop PCs in to SOCs that can work in smaller  devices.<br \/>\nMr Ballmer said that the next generation of Windows  would also run on new versions of these SOCs &#8211; Atom from Intel and  Fusion from AMD.<br \/>\nMicrosoft was working to get a full version of  Windows running on mobile chips in a bid to end the compromises people  typically have to make when using portable gadgets, said Steven  Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live division during a  demo held prior to Mr Ballmer&#8217;s speech.<br \/>\nDuring its demonstration, Microsoft showed Windows running on Arm-designed chips made by Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Nvidia.<br \/>\nMicrosoft  has a mobile version of Windows, known as Windows Phone 7, that already  runs on Arm-designed chips. But, said Mr Sinofsky, Windows Phone 7 was  aimed at smaller devices and the full version would be for larger  tablets, slates and netbooks.<br \/>\nAs well as running Windows,  Microsoft also showed the work it was doing to get applications such as  Word, Powerpoint and Internet Explorer plus common tasks such as  printing running on Arm chips.<br \/>\nMr Ballmer made no mention of when  Arm-powered Windows devices would surface. However, if they coincide  with the release of the next version of Windows, this would mean a  launch date in 2012.<br \/>\nMany expect the two to come together as  Windows 8, which will handle multi-touch interfaces, a feature poorly  supported in the current version of Windows but which is key for slates  and tablets where the chips are likely to find a use.<br \/>\n&#8220;Increasingly customers expect the full range of capabilities from every device they use,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nIn his keynote, Mr Ballmer also gave CES attendees an update on its plans for its Xbox games console and Windows Phone 7.<br \/>\nForthcoming  updates for Windows Phone 7 would speed up response times on its  handsets and introduce a copy and paste feature, said Mr Ballmer.<br \/>\nThe  Kinect add-on for the Xbox was proving very popular, he said, with more  than eight million of the motion-spotting systems sold.<br \/>\nA future  update would tie motions made by a human to what their avatar does in  the social spaces of the Xbox Live gaming service, he said.<br \/>\nThe  Avatar Kinect system will let people host and attend virtual meetings  and gatherings with the avatars of their friends and have their  on-screen doubles act out what they are doing in real life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next release of Windows will be able to run on chips usually found in mobile phones. 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