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I think it won't be long before Microsoft returns to the smartphone market with an OS based on Windows, and this time it won't be a flop.
by wtdata 7y ago
I think it won't be long before Microsoft returns to the smartphone market with an OS based on Windows, and this time it won't be a flop.
- nwah1 7y agoThe rumor for a long time was that the Windows Phone brand was dead but that they might want a "Surface Phone" possibly with x86 emulation, which could double as a PC in your pocket. They just tested the water with ARM-based Windows laptops that have x86 emulation.
- wtdata 7y agoBut they already have some windows version running on ARM right? I can't check right now but Microsoft offers something that runs on Raspberry Pi if I remember correctly.
- lkschubert8 7y agoYeah Windows IOT (previously Windows Embedded I think) runs on ARM.
- baybal2 7y agoSurface Phone is certainly not a bare rumour. Prototype PCBs and unleaded parts of the device been spotted around Shenzhen for around a year now. Moreover, Microsoft itself been said to go around different prototyping shops here. Lakefield was once said to be a codename for Surface Phone, but now been discovered to be a codename for Intel CPU purpose made for it.
- baybal2 7y agounlabeled