The number of supported desktop apps on the ARM version of Windows 8 will be very limited. Only the Office 15 applications Word, PowerPoint, OneNote and Excel, which included, on tablets with an ARM chip running.
According to Microsoft, the restrictions for the ARM platform is necessary to the power consumption on a Windows 8 tablet as far as possible. The aforementioned Office apps, according to Microsoft, there largely for optimized. It is striking that these applications are included by default will be with the ARM version of Windows 8. Continue to let Microsoft know that a user in the desktop mode only specific Windowsonderdelen can start, such as Internet Explorer 10 and file manager. All other apps will be only through the Metro interface to be turned. Installations and updates for Metro apps will be through the Windows Store expired.
Microsoft will be in the ARM version, no support for Adobe Flash delivery, as the head of the Windows division at Microsoft Steven Sinofsky in the blog Building Windows 8 know. The software giant would prefer html5. Also reports Sinofsky, Microsoft aims to keep the ARM tablets with Windows 8 at around the same time on the market as the x86 versions of Windows 8. Already it was known that the tablet edition of Microsoft’s new OS, no emulation layer will get to be as existing x86 apps to run on ARM hardware.
Sinofsky confirms the news that the upcoming beta version of Windows 8, Consumer Preview”, at the end of this month will be available. The ARM version of Windows 8 will not be as a separate product on the market.
Update, Friday, 9:51: Clarifies that the Office applications are a standard part of the ARM version of Windows 8.