Windows on ARM - Windows RT

Microsoft is using its Windows 8 Consumer Preview event to show off some examples of hardware that'll come fresh out of the box with the new OS when it ships later this year. The company has demonstrated both ARM and Intel x86 flavors of Windows 8 running on reference machines.

While the traditional Intel-based version is somewhat of a known quantity thanks to the developer preview, we haven't been able to see much of the ARM variety for ourselves — especially to what extent it'll be able to replicate the traditional desktop experience. Microsoft wasn't showing much new at first, with Julie Larson-Green starting out by using the Metro interface on the same Samsung preview slate we saw at BUILD last year, and Antoine Leblond demonstrating the software on a Lenovo U300s ultrabook. Later on, though, we heard that Intel is adding the Ivy Bridge processor and a touchscreen to the next generation ultrabook specification, meaning that laptop users will be able to get the full Metro experience as well.

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