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Microsoft looks to put Windows 7 on tablets
COMPUTEX SAW Microsoft preview Windows Embedded Compact 7, which is aimed at providing Windows 7 technology for smaller, next-generation devices like tablets.
Microsoft has previously released Windows Embedded Standard 7, which brought Windows 7 to set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and TVs.
With Windows Embedded Compact 7, manufacturers will be able to put Windows 7 on tablets, slates and portable media players.
Asus has previewed Windows Embedded Compact 7 on its Eee Pad EP101TC 10, and the cut down OS is likely to be the Windows technology used on these types of devices rather than Windows Mobile 7, which is specifically built for smartphones.
This means that the Vole's baby operating system will be going directly against tablets with Linux operating systems like Google's Android and the upcoming Meego OS from Intel and Nokia.
Windows Embedded provides tools and technologies to allow hardware manufacturers to build on the device, as well as offer support for ARM-based architecture.
It should also allow users to share and manage content over networked devices, allowing people to share content from the Internet with each other.
It is still at an early stage, made available by Microsoft to the public as a public community tech preview program, but should be available to manufacturing in the fourth quarter of the year.
As usual, the Vole is late to the tablet party like it was with smartphones, though, and it remains to be seen whether we will still care about tablets by the time hardware built for this Microsoft software finally gets released. µ
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Microsoft made another mistake and tried to confuse users. Author wrote a completely wrong title in his article. Windows 7 only run on X86 processor not on ARM so far.
This article is 100% factually incorrect.
The auther doesn't know that Windows Embedded Compact Edition (CE) is not the same thing as Windows Embedded. The former is not a stripped down version of the latter. It is a completely different hard real-time operating system, specifically designed for underpowered embedded systems. The latter is just Windows, with the ability of the OEM to easily build and deliver which of the several thousand modules that constitite Windows.
Whoever wrote this article needs to go on a remedial course on Windows.
The article sounds like tablet is totally new revolutionary stuff that just came out of the oven. I've been using Windows XP Tablet PC edition on my Fujitsu ST5112 slate tablet for over 4 years. Previous to that, I've used the famous HP Compaq TC1100 for another 2 years.
Windows 7 had multi touch built in and there are a number of tablet PCs using Windows 7 since it came out.
Then IT IS NOT WINDOWS 7.
It has a seven in it.
But it isn't Windows 7.
It isn't Windows.
Can I run OpenOffice on it?