Microsoft might give its mobile aspirations "a shot" by polishing and releasing a new Windows OS to run on ARM chips. The New OS will be either the Windows 8 or the beefed-up, highly-tweaked Windows 7. Windows 8, which will have Face-Detecting Technology (Uses the computer camera to detect the user and log him in) or AKA My Computer Knows Me, might show its face as this OS is released. The ARM chips will be extensively be used in Mobile Devices such as Windows Mobile Phone (7). The ARM chips consume 30% less power than Intel or AMD chips.
The ARM will rarely be used in computers (as of now), and runs on Intel and AMD (mainly Intel) processors. The ARM will be modular, so if it is used in smaller, or thinner smartphones, unncessary parts of it could easily be removed. ARM has gone multicore and can easily support multiple, complex operating systems, according to Rob Enderle, as Tegra 2, an Nvidia graphics processing unit, was released. The Tegra 2 unit has a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU, which has 1080p HD video- play back processor. Apparently, Microsoft is continuing to evolve ARM and will be widely used starting from mid or late 2011 in mobile devices.
One main reason Microsoft developed this was that the Windows Phone 7 "was too light" for the competition with Google and Apple. Google and Apple both have their own mobile OS's, such as (iOS) and (Google Chrome). If ARM proves to be successful, then Microsoft will be much more competitive with Apple and Google and even Android on terms of both mobile and PC innovations. Microsoft has had massive success with computer related Operating Systems, but has not gotten far into mobile OS's, until now.
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