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Microsoft

MicrosoftARM and Microsoft have been collaborating for more than 14 years across a range of technologies and product categories.

 

Microsoft has been an instrumental partner in the continuing evolution of the ARM architecture. In July 2010, Microsoft became an ARM architecture licensee.

 


Microsoft has a wide range of products that support the ARM architecture, from Automotive to the Zune media players.  WEB NavReady Image

 

ARM is the exclusive architecture for:

ARM is the leading architecture for:

Microsoft further leverages ARM for products such as:

  • Zune
  • Microsoft® Unified Communications Phone Edition

In addition to OS platform products, Microsoft maintains support for the ARM® architecture for a range of Web 2.0 enabling technologies.

 

IE for ARM

Internet Explorer

  • Extensible IE8 based browser engine for ARM SoC's
  • Gesture and tiling support for a wide range of product categories

Windows Media

  • Windows audio and video codecs optimized for the ARM architecture
  • ARMv6 and ARMv7 optimized codecs shipping today

Silverlight for Windows Embedded

  • Rapidly create compelling UI experiences for a range of devices using Microsoft's tools for Silverlight design, Expressions Blend Studio
  • Optimized for graphics hardware acceleration on ARM SoC's

 

Online Office

Microsoft Office online

  • Microsoft has announced online office tools as part of its next major release
  • Online Office will run on ARM platforms and include support for additional browsers such as Firefox and Safari

.NET Compact Framework

  • Managed code environment optimized for the ARM architecture
  • Enables robust portability of applications written in languages such as C#

 


Microsoft has adopted a layered strategy to enable a range of both standard and custom services on a wide array of ARM® based devices.

 

Microsoft client for device services

   

Microsoft's client technologies enable rapid development and deployment of a wide range of service consuming devices on ARM

 

Microsoft Cloud Support for Device Services

   

Microsoft's cloud technologies enable rapid development and deployment of services targeting a wide range of ARM based devices.


Microsoft has announced that the ARM Architecture will be supported in the next version of Windows. During his keynote at CES 2011, Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer revealed that Windows will support a full set of ARM partners including NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments.

Additional Windows on ARM resources

  • Steve Ballmer - CES 2011 Keynote
  • Steven Sinofsky - CES 2011 Q&A
  • Next Version of Windows on ARM - Press Release 

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