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Microsoft pushes Windows Embedded for Smartbooks, ARM-powered devices

Microsoft has no plans to port Windows 7 to run on ARM processors. At least, no official plans. Instead, the company is suggesting that PC makers using ARM-based chips for their netbooks or “smartbooks” go with Windows Embedded CE, which can support devices with ARM, x86, and MIPS based rocessors. IDG’s Dan Nystedt got a […]

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NVIDIA: Windows CE is better than Android for Tegra smartbooks

NVIDIA’s Tegra platform combines a low power ARM-based processor with NVIDIA graphics to power ultraportable devices capable of displaying 1080p video over HDMI while using very little power. But ARM processors, which are much more common in cellphones than laptops these days, don’t run Windows. Or rather, Microsoft hasn’t ported Windows XP, Vista, or 7 […]

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NVIDIA introduces Tegra powered netbooks running Windows CE

NVIDIA is expanding its Tegra platform, originally designed for touchscreen MIDs, or Mobile Internet Devices, to include netbook-style mini-laptops. Tegra combines an ARM-based processor with an NVIDIA graphics processor to provide high quality graphics on a mobile device while using relatively little power. NVIDIA first dropped a hint that it was working on Tegra netbooks […]

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FirstView netbooks could be headed to the US

Shenzhen FirstView, a Chinese-based company that was showing off a line of 7 to 10 inch mini-laptops running Windows CE and Windows XP at the Hong Kong Electronics Fare a few months back, is apparently hoping to bring some of these machines stateside. The folks at Laptop Magazine happened across a FirstView booth at CES, […]

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Will the netbook revolution lead to a rise in Windows CE handhelds?

Liliputing reader John Hogg wrote in to let me know about yet another Windows CE-based mini-computer on the market. UK online retailer Argos is selling a netbook-shaped machine, but instead of Linux or Windows XP it runs Windows CE and comes with a word processor, spreadsheet, windows media player, and 15 language translator. I’m a […]