MICROSOFT HAS DECIDED not to support ARM chips when it releases its new Windows 7 operating system.
According to ZDnet, the Vole confirmed the move at Computex.
The policy stance is strange as it does open the door to the likes of Android, Moblin and other Linux flavours that work with ARM CPUs quite nicely. Computex is apparently full of ARM based netbooks this year, all of which need an operating system.
And what is Microsoft offering them? The Vole seems to think that its Windows CE will do for anything ARMish. The only conclusion we can come up with is that Microsoft thinks it must keep the door open for ARM and Linux so it won't get slapped by the EU's strict anti-trust coppers again.
Either that, or the sudden popularity of tiny ARM chips bunged into netbooks caught the Vole napping.