Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)'s work on its
Windows mobile operating system is gaining momentum, now that the milestone of
its Release to manufacturing was successfully reached on Aug. 1.
Mike Angiulo, vice president of Microsoft’s Ecosystem
and Planning team in a blog on Monday said that the company was now working
closely with its hardware partners such as Asus and Lenovo.
On Aug 1, the original equipment manufacturers that
Microsoft is partnering with got its new mobile operating system, fir their own
checks and trials.
Mike gave details about the tablets that will be
running on its Windows software. Asus Tablet 600 will run on Windows RT the new
operating software designed for ARM-based processors.
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Incidentally Microsoft Surface Tablet will be
competing with its OEM partners in the tablet segment but both the companies
and the software giant are seemingly unperturbed by this turn of events, at
least that is what the Redmond-based company will have us believe.
Acer is the only company that has publicly protested
against this, grumbling about the company competing against them even as it was
working with them to run its software.
ASUS Tablet 600 will run Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core
central processing units (CPUs) and a 12-core graphics processing unit (GPU).
It will have an external keyboard where the tablet can plug in, making it look
and operate like a laptop.
Lenovo is developing the ThinkPad Tablet 2, which will
run Windows 8 Pro, the version of the new OS for the x86-based processor
platform. It will run an Intel Atom-based processor and, like the Asus product,
feature a 10.1-inch diagonal screen.
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