Microsoft rips apart "Wintel" partnership, embraces ARM

The long term partners “Wintel” are about to break it seems. To hop on the tablet bandwagon, Microsoft is now shifting its focus to develop operating systems that are compatible with “ARM” processors.

Citing the updates, the related sources quoted that in wake of not allowing the “tablet” go off like that, Microsoft plans to move to ARM, which is otherwise ruling the tablet segment from a long time now.  The software titan has signed a deal allowing it to design its own embedded ARM-based processors and other embedded systems.

Since PC hardware designs are moving off from Intel; courtesy invasion of new mobile technologies and Intel’s failure in embracing the same properly. Due to the shift and uproar in tablet sales, Gartner and IDC have changed their projections in regards to PC sales; PC sales are likely to suffer. The adaption ratio of Smartphones and tablet devices is pretty fast and Microsoft is quite slow in responding to the change. The slow response is drifting the world away from Microsoft and Wintel partnerships in nut.

The attempts to showcase ARM based Windows would mark Microsoft efforts towards mobile computing era; though the response is slow.