Microsoft

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

 

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

 

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

 

   

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