Analyst: Microsoft wrestling with ARM as Windows 8 nears

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Veteran Wall Street analyst Rick Sherlund of Nomura Research has issued a report following a series of investor meetings last week with Windows marketing chief Tami Reller, providing a glimpse into the status of Microsoft’s Windows 8 as the company gears up for its launch, expected later this year. One of the more interesting tidbits… Read More…

Details on Windows 8 for ARM, plus a peek at Office 15

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Microsoft today gave more details about its plans for Windows 8 on ARM processors — a key initiative designed to expand the reach of the operating system beyond traditional PCs to the architecture common in mobile devices and tablet computers. Windows President Steven Sinofsky writes in a blog post that the goal is for hardware… Read More…

Windows chief: Think of the classic Windows desktop as ‘just another app’

The new 'Windows 8' start screen (Credit: Microsoft)

As Microsoft has been previewing new elements of the Windows 8 desktop experience over the past week — including smarter file copying and a Windows Explorer ribbon — one head-scratcher has been the departure from the look and feel of the new Windows 8 Start screen that Microsoft showed in June. That new approach, inspired by the… Read More…

Windows 8, the first real glimpse: Tiles on a tablet

The new 'Windows 8' start screen (Credit: Microsoft)

[Updated below] Microsoft’s Windows 8 will offer new start screen optimized for tablet/slate computers that uses a tile interface reminiscent of the company’s Windows Phone interface. Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky is on stage right now giving a sneak peak of the interface, talking with Walt Mossberg at the D9 conference down in California. The operating… Read More…

Microsoft loosening the lid on Windows 8?

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[Updated below with Microsoft's statement on Ballmer's comments] Two separate developments today suggest that Microsoft may be gearing up to share more information about Windows 8, or whatever the company ends up calling the next version of its PC operating system. First, as noted by Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said… Read More…