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Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt View Post
Very, very interesting.

It seems that Windows 8 ARM will not be backwards compatible with non-ARM variants.


http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/18/i...ffer-no-compat

In the meantime Intel is ramping up to flood the market with some 35 tablets in the coming year!
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/computers/...the-works/5488

It's a crowded market, and it's under flux. It will be interesting to see what happens.
Hey my article got approved in engdaget, yay!
Thanks CC, your the one who pointed it out to me.
I'm not really reading engadget as often since it's jumped the shark. The old crew of engadget got sacked by AOL, so they made their own new gadget-blog its called thisismynext.com ... its quite good.

Back on topic:
ARM-based Windows 8 will support Windows 8 programs.
x86-based Windows 8 will support Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 programs.
I expect the "Ultimate" version of x86-based Windows 8 to also support Windows XP for legacy code, as history shows us.
 

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