Windows 8 introduced by Microsoft at the CES 2011
Microsoft has been in the news, as it has recently introduced its next and latest version of windows for the 1st time at the International Electronics Consumer show in Vegas on 5th Jan, 2011.It is important to underline the fact that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and president of windows and windows live division at Microsoft haven’t yet actually used the “windows 8”.Both of them have, in fact referred to the next version of windows, this means the windows 7 brand’s successor is yet to be decided.
The first appearance of windows 8 was mostly about platform support. Ballmer and Sinofsky both stressed the support for system on a chip (SoC) architectures with the next version of windows. This means that windows 8 will be compatible with the AR-based systems
Sinofsky stated “With today’s announcement, we’re showing the flexibility and resiliency of Windows through the power of software and a commitment to world-class engineering. We continue to evolve Windows to deliver the functionality customers demand across the widest variety of hardware platforms and form factors,”
Qualcomm, NVIDI and Texas Instruments, the leading chip makers would be working with the Redmond Company to offer ARM-based systems for the 1st time for the Windows client.
AMD and Intel are also working really hard to push the x86 platforms forward, also focusing on the new low power systems and new designs which include the 2nd generation Intel Core and AMD’S Fusion accelerated processing units (APU’s).
Microsoft revealed. “The technology demonstration included Windows client support across a range of scenarios, such as hardware-accelerated graphics and media playback, hardware-accelerated Web browsing with the latest Microsoft Internet Explorer, USB device support, printing and other features customers have come to expect from their computing experience.”
“Microsoft Office running natively on ARM was also shown as a demonstration of the potential of Windows platform capabilities on ARM architecture,”
