Microsoft Shows Windows Running on ARM

[mikem_90]

[citation][nom]rantoc[/nom]Yep thats why Microsoft totally dominates the corporate world.. due to weak security /end sarcasm. Please use your brain before issuing a statement, it should not be hard to add one and one![/citation]

MS dominates the corporate world because of heavy investment and development for products the corporate world uses. Its about getting customers something they want and can use easily.

Now, they further improve dominance by using anti-competitive pricing, special "Exclusive" deals, using lock-in leverage in office and productivity packages, giving away "Free Support" deals to people considering a linux solution, etc.

But the majority of PCs in the corporate world are not Windows because it is more secure. Remember that the majority of security break ins at companies are still through PEBKAC exploits on Windows machines.

The majority of the internet on the server side is still unix/linux.

 

[rpgplayer]

ROFL at the "Windows is not activated" tag not even MS runs Genuine software.

 

[Guest]

@rantoc

you are aware of the alpha workstations and Sparc work stations right......

i would consider that serious heavy lifting

 

[PhilFrisbie]

[citation][nom]rantoc[/nom]Yep thats why Microsoft totally dominates the corporate world.. due to weak security /end sarcasm. Please use your brain before issuing a statement, it should not be hard to add one and one![/citation]

The reason Microsoft dominates business is because more secure alternates flubbed their chance in the early 90s. OS2, UNIX variants - they all missed the chance to overtake Windows. And don't ask about Apple: until they went with a BSD operating system they were never in the running!

Also, did you count how many security fixes Microsoft just released this week? Over 60!

 

[silverblue]

[citation][nom]rpgplayer[/nom]ROFL at the "Windows is not activated" tag not even MS runs Genuine software.[/citation]

Well, considering this is a pre-release operating system, I don't see what they'd have to activate it against. That might be shortsighted of me, but that's the way I see it.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]captaincharisma[/nom]cool MS hasn't made a windows supported ARM since 1996[/citation]
To my knowledge Microsoft never had any windows OS that worked on ARM, with the exception of windows ce.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]mikem_90[/nom]MS dominates the corporate world because of heavy investment and development for products the corporate world uses. Its about getting customers something they want and can use easily.Now, they further improve dominance by using anti-competitive pricing, special "Exclusive" deals, using lock-in leverage in office and productivity packages, giving away "Free Support" deals to people considering a linux solution, etc.But the majority of PCs in the corporate world are not Windows because it is more secure. Remember that the majority of security break ins at companies are still through PEBKAC exploits on Windows machines.The majority of the internet on the server side is still unix/linux.[/citation]
Since when is the OS to blame for a PEBKAC exploit?

 

[Guest]

@Vladislaus

if i recall winNT and win2k would happily install to an Alpha/Sparc workstation, which were ARM based

 

[hangfirew8]

[citation][nom]AlphaForgotten[/nom]@Vladislausif i recall winNT and win2k would happily install to an Alpha/Sparc workstation, which were ARM based[/citation]

Alpha's were Alpha based. Sparc's are SPARC based. Neither are ARM.

Anyway, MS has been doing Windows variants on ARM for years. If this is something new, such as Windows 7 or 8 on ARM, or a new variant, the article failed to elaborate on that.

 

[rantoc]

[citation][nom]mikem_90[/nom]Remember that the majority of security break ins at companies are still through PEBKAC exploits on Windows machines.The majority of the internet on the server side is still unix/linux.[/citation]

If you educate the users and restrict the workstations it will prevent the users from making fatal mistakes like most ID10T ,PEBKAC & PICNIC exploits around, its not hard for the IT staff so set up with the right access that won't hamper work productivity with the right know how. Sadly not all corporations seem to think its worth spending the resources to educate their staff and securing the workstations properly so in a way you could say the exec's are the ID10T error not the workstations themselves.

Even with the old venerable XP as main client our company with over 40k workstations in the network we haven't had a single reported or monitored instance of security problem in the last 5 years, so i think i can say its secure enough from those user related issues.

 

[palladin9479]

The kiddies are always gonna do the "burn MS" thing. Windows 98 was horrible insecure, but only because it assumed the logged in user always had root level privileges. Its a spillover from the DOS / Win3.11 days. Starting with NT and beyond the OS was pretty secure, vulnerabilities always exist in complex projects and its a race between the manufacturer and the hackers to find / patch them. MS's early evil was that they did the "Apple" and refused to acknowledge many of the holes in the hopes of not looking bad. They've done an amazing job since Windows XP SP1 at patching and fixing things quickly. And this is coming from a guy who's career is mostly based on Solaris and SPARC's.

On a side note, I've successfully compiled GLDoom and other "open-source" OpenGL based games to work on a SPARC. Kinda cool to play vintage games on a SUN box. To make things even more spooky, using doxbox I've run Windows 3.11 ... on Solaris 10 ... in a dual UltraSparcIIIi system.

 

[twisby]

This is a good thing. All speculation of failure is irrelevant because more competition will have an overall positive influence. I'm looking forward to seeing what possibilities Win 8 will bring to the tablet market.