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.

Other ARM^® products leveraged by Microsoft software include:

• TrustZone
• Mali GPUs 
• NEON 
• OpenMAX 
• RealView Development Boards

 

CPU	Cortex	Cortex-A9 Cortex-A8 Cortex-A5
	ARM11	ARM1176JZ(F)-S ARM11 MPCore ARM1136J(F)-S
	ARM9	ARM926EJ-S ARM922T ARM920T
GPU	Mali	Mali-400 Mali-200

ARM develops Board Support Package (BSP) examples and other helper software for Microsoft's Windows Embedded CE product to accelerate and optimize the development of ARM and Windows Embedded CE based products.

Source and binary packages for ARM's RealView Development Boards as well as other software for Windows Embedded CE can be downloaded free of charge from our Connect Silver system.

• RealView^® Versatile PB926EJ-S Board Support Package for Microsoft Windows CE 4
• RealView EB with MPCore CoreTile Board Support Package for Microsoft Windows CE 5
• RealView Versatile PB926EJ-S Board Support Package for Microsoft Windows CE 5
• RealView EB with Cortex-A8 or ARM11 MPCore Board Support Package for Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6
• RealView Versatile PB926EJ-S Board Support Package for Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6
• RealView PB with Cortex-A8 or ARM11 MPCore Board Support Package for Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6 
• RealView PB1176JZF-S Board Support Package for Windows Embedded CE 6