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Originally Posted by ATimson
Uhh... where have you heard anything about Windows 8 tablets being "severely limited" in their chipset choice? I thought that they would run on pretty much the entire ARM gamut.
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Building Windows for the ARM processor architecture:
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Each ARM licensee building these packages takes a different approach to selecting features, making product trade-offs, and designing the complete silicon package. These choices are what bring the diversity of different products built on ARM to the market. There is no single ARM experience, and as we have seen with other operating systems, even the same ARM CPU combined with different components, drivers, and software can yield different types or qualities of experiences. That is why from the start of the WOA project, we have been working with three ARM licensees: NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments. Each brings different expertise and different approaches, and all will make a unique contribution to WOA. All of them have extremely successful ARM-based products in the market today, from tablets to smart phones to e-readers to embedded devices. We are fortunate to have the support of such amazing partners, and WOA is unique in working with such diversity.
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My translation of "WOA is unique in working with such diversity" is "MS has severely limited the choices of what SoC's to use". Introducing a new O/S on high end hardware is not necessarily a bad thing in the long term, since SoC's get more capable over time. In the short term, it means that the devices will be relatively expensive at first and will compete against high end Android tablets and low end Intel laptops.