Having Windows Phone 7 coming out soon and having great profit and mobile market share expectations on this basis, Microsoft continues to expand the number of potentially compatible devices as to offer WP7 for them. The news is that Microsoft has recently signed a license agreement with ARM architecture owners to secure and enhance their cooperation. Some say this is to make next iteration of Windows operating system run on ARM-based processors. I think it’s unlikely. Well, if Windows edition in mind is not the Embedded but a full desktop one.Signing an agreement to develop for ARM must pertain largely to Windows Phone 7 platform. When it comes out later this year it will compete against iOS 4, Android which ever version will be the latest stable at the time, plausibly even webOS 2. And the processors they will all run on are going to be fast and energy efficient - ARM-based in short. Apple A4 chip is ARM-based (sure thing WP7 will never run on the A4 out of stock), Qualcomm Snapdragon is ARM-based, Samsung S5PC110 and S5PV210 are as well. I’m sure later there will be more so this is a mobile device market Microsoft doesn’t want to miss whether those will be smartphones, tablets or anything else.
