Microsoft announced today that they have taken an Architecture license from ARM, only 4 other companies have done this, Qualcomm, Marvell, Infineon and an un-named one that is highly likely to be Apple.
It raises some interesting questions.
I wonder what this is likely to mean for the MSFT/Tegra tie up in the long term ?
Also, does it signal MSFT considering porting full windows to the Arm processor ?
Or maybe its got nothing to do with the handheld field and its microsoft looking at its data centres and doing a customised Arm server ?
http://dcsblog.burtongroup.com/data_center_strategies/2010/04/microsoft-in-data-center-arm-race.html
It raises some interesting questions.
I wonder what this is likely to mean for the MSFT/Tegra tie up in the long term ?
Also, does it signal MSFT considering porting full windows to the Arm processor ?
Or maybe its got nothing to do with the handheld field and its microsoft looking at its data centres and doing a customised Arm server ?
http://dcsblog.burtongroup.com/data_center_strategies/2010/04/microsoft-in-data-center-arm-race.html
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