Microsoft would reportedly in the summer, the latest changes to Windows 8 and the new os around October actually to purchase. Sources familiar with the plans reported this to Bloomberg.
Windows 8 is the first consumer version of a Microsoft operating system that not only x86 hardware supports, but also on the ARM platform can run. Microsoft wants Windows in this way a better starting position on the fast-growing tablet market, where ARM chips the service part.
According to Bloomberg, there will be immediately in the first phase after the introduction of Windows 8, even though Intel – and ARM-devices with Windows 8 are available. It would include up to four ARM devices and more than forty-Intel-devices. Three of the ARM devices on which the resources of Bloomberg speaking, would tablets.
The availability of Windows 8 is, according to the news agency is essential for the software maker. If the new operating system is too late, can hardly be benefited from the expected verkooppiek for the holidays. Spokespersons from Microsoft, as well as the three ARM chip manufacturers Nvidia, Texas Instruments and Qualcomm wanted the news not the content word.
In late February, Microsoft at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona de Consumer Preview of Windows 8 free. This Consumer Preview of Windows 8, available in English, Chinese, French, German, and Japanese, is available in a 32bit and 64bit version. The iso images are between 2.5 and 3.3 GB in size and can be both on a dvd if a usb drive is inserted. Tweakers.net published as a comprehensive hands-on.