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Live coverage: Microsoft announces Surface tablet
MSNBC Gadgetbox ^ | 6/18/2012 | Wilson Rothman

Posted on 06/18/2012 5:51:35 PM PDT by bigtoona

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To: Army Air Corps

pen, not ben.


21 posted on 06/18/2012 8:25:48 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Depending on which architecture chip is in this....if an ARM chip then it runs Windows 8 RT ....which WILL NOT run all of the applications written for the current Windows 7 which requires an x86 or x86-64 Instruction Set.

I was thinking specifically of the Intel-based variants mentioned in the article, which I would assume run the x86 instruction set and are, theoretically, be capable of supporting an x86-based Linux distro like Ubuntu. (This is assuming that Microsoft haven't crippled the hardware in some way to prevent using non-MS operating systems on it.)

Sounds like an overpriced bit of hardware either way, though.

22 posted on 06/18/2012 9:30:05 PM PDT by RansomOttawa (tm)
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