I never truly expected Steve Ballmer to show off a Windows 8 tablet at CES. Firstly because it’s simply too early in the product development cycle for Microsoft to do this, but also because their hardware partners unveiling Windows 7 slates this year would be livid. Thus, it never happened.
What we all did get though was a view of a full version of Windows 7 running on ARM chips. This was expected and is part of Microsoft’s tablet strategy going forward.
Microsoft President Steven Sinofsky demoed the software and talked about Windows Phone 7 being aimed at less powerful machines than tablets, and the ARM-powered Windows being directly intended for such devices.
There will be issues over software compatibility but he did talk about how Microsoft are working to get Windows software, including their Office suite, working on new chipsets.
Will this happen for Windows 7? This is unlikely and it’s going to cause significant headaches for Microsoft anyway having to work with several different versions of Windows at the same time (it’ll be just like the good old days really). This will most likely be the strategy for Windows 8 and will probably see an embedded version of Windows 8 customised for tablets.
This could potentially be bad news for anyone buying a Windows 7 tablet now with the intention of upgrading the OS later on and I’ll try and get the answer to this question for you.
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