When Intel's chief executive office Paul Otellini said during the latest earnings call that Microsoft will put Windows 8 on smartphones, people thought he was mistakenly referring to Windows Phone 8, a scaled-down version of the software thought to be in the works alongside its desktop Windows 8 counterpart.
But as Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer dropped a bombshell at CES 2011 by confirming rumors that the next-gen Windows will run on both ARM and x86 architecture, the company's intent to provide a single version of Windows 8 for both mobile and desktop devices came into full view.
The plus for Intel is that as they unify their operating systems we now have the ability for the first time: one, to have a designed-from-scratch, touch-enabled operating system for tablets that runs on Intel that we don't have today.
And secondly, we have the ability to put our lowest-power Intel processors running Windows 8, or 'next-generation Windows,' into phones, because it's the same OS stack. And I look at that as an upside opportunity for us.
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