Microsoft shows off ARM processors running Windows

During the CES keynote speech of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft showed off how a future version of Windows can run on ARM chips.
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[Ankan Banerjee]

Of the 3 ARM based systems, only the nvidia tegra platform is running hardware-accelerated Aero glass theme.

[ZombieCrusherLive]

Can someone give me a brief explanation of what ARM is? And what differs about it?

[bogdan mihai]

Normal processors have X86 processors. They use a lot of energy, and they heat up a lot.

ARM is a processor architecture. It uses a lot less energy than X86, and they don't heat up as much as X86.

ARM processors are found in tablets and mobile phones with android.

[joemrp05]

if they had launched this on the surface it would have decimated the ipad in sales.

[DecibelAlex]

he said several times in the vid that they've recompiled the programs to work with ARM architecture.. not exactly like in my words but whatever.

[DecibelAlex]

ARM processors can be found in Android & Apple phones, set-top boxes and even hard drives. They use less power yet they are much smaller than the x86 CPU in your PC, but because of the architecture differences they can not run the same libraries. You can not run Windows 7 on your phone, it just wouldn't understand it.

[Tweety Tweet]

I wish the kind of Windows shown in this video was released, not Windows RT (which caused jokes that RT stands for retarded technology to spread)

[toppledgod]

Can I run Linux on it? No, Microsoft hijacked my hardware!

[Burned Frozen]

I'm so turned on now.

[tudycasillas]

This is bloat video the real deal is the OMAP 5 win win 8 and they own kinect. Android is better.

[tudycasillas]

Window 7 build 7686 really i would like this on my acer a500

[blenheimears]

In order for this to be successful, Microsoft would need to add an X86 emulator to allow running "normal" windows programs on ARM. People like Windows for its compatibility. Without compatibility, there is no point in using Windows on an ARM computer.