http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 6:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/R&D win]]>Jul 23rd 2010 7:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Oh sweet jebus please no. We know the scene: Microsoft offers tools to develop on Windows for platformX, Microsoft builds own platformY, Microsoft pulls support and/or cripples api for platformX.

Go monopoly.]]>Jul 23rd 2010 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/
Xbox Portable.]]>Jul 23rd 2010 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/
ummmmm, every windows phone 7 device is a zune ]]>Jul 23rd 2010 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 24th 2010 2:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/
my mistake, but I guess that would require microsoft to manufacture the hardware and risk being apple 1.5 ]]>Jul 29th 2010 1:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Go Go Microsoft Shill Down-Rank!]]>Jul 29th 2010 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 6:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 7:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 7:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 7:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/I want a super phone!]]>Jul 23rd 2010 7:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/
The licence is for manufacturing data. Could be something to do with next gen Xbox? Obviously not for main CPU but could make a great support chip.]]>Jul 23rd 2010 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/
It is probably for Windows Embedded.]]>Jul 23rd 2010 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Re: "At this point give it a rest people."

THIS! IS! COURIER!
(kicks you into a bottomless pit)]]>Jul 23rd 2010 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 7:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 7:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/You're missing the point entirely. It's a phone, a consumer device, not some...industrial saw that would cripple somebody. Whatever linux does or doesn't in ARM architectures has really no consequence to MS mobile computing plans. Their WP7 OS runs on ARM chips contrary to the false preception of many that somehow microsoft can't compile code for anything other than intel. The underlying OS and kernel is all coded in C/C++ and that language is not chip/architecture specific. They can pretty much make it run in anything linux can.]]>Jul 23rd 2010 7:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/That is simply not true, there is much more to it than just having a compiler that can output binaries for a specific architecture. There's many more parts in any computer system besides the CPU, and Linux as of yet pretty much covers anything in existence, compared to Windows Embedded which only runs on a few very specific platforms. There's a reason Windows on embedded can't hold a candle to Linux in terms of the number of embedded applications.]]>Jul 23rd 2010 7:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/You get source code for the platforms it supports, which is only a tiny subset of platforms compared to the platforms that Linux runs on. We're not talking about drivers here, but the kernel subsystems that these drivers are build on top of, and linux has many more of them. Maybe you should check out the linux kernel sources some time, it has support for platforms you haven't ever heard of. Why do you even doubt this, seeing that Linux runs on everything from supercomputers down to 4-bit microcontrollers, from the latest and greatest hardware to 70's mainframes. Linux literally runs on about everything that has a CPU and memory.

As for support, I think you're also missing the point. Windows CE/Embedded has better *vendor* support, but that's not all there is to it. Millions of people are making a living providing support on specialized linux systems and/or distro's, and community support is also excellent.]]>Jul 23rd 2010 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/
MS simply realizes that the market is not going to.be all Intel all the time now and the market for OS is larger than just desktops and laptops now. ]]>Jul 23rd 2010 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/]]>Jul 23rd 2010 7:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 7:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/]]>Jul 23rd 2010 7:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 7:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 7:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/have you seen a zune RROD?]]>Jul 23rd 2010 7:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 7:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 7:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/
Thanks]]>Jul 23rd 2010 7:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/
Lmao, whatever, you just keep doin' your thing.]]>Jul 23rd 2010 7:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 8:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Well done Engadget finally the power of grammar is on your side.]]>Jul 23rd 2010 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/
Did I discern malice and hostility in that statement? Engadget, can't just pretend you are independent? Do you really hate that much? This is ridiculous!]]>Jul 23rd 2010 7:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/But hey they are nice and shiny boxes.]]>Jul 23rd 2010 8:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/microsoft-becomes-official-arm-licensee-could-an-ms-microproces/Jul 23rd 2010 9:13AM