Despite Microsoft’s insistence in the past that the Windows Phone operating system, as its name implies, is reserved strictly for phones, NVIDIA’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang spilled a major secret that the next-generation Windows 8 for tablets will be able to run apps made for Windows Phone 7.
Microsoft has yet to comment on Huang’s statements, but NVIDIA’s Tegra chipset will be one of several ARM based chips which will be supporting Windows 8 along with the traditional x86 and x64 architecture used by AMD and Intel. Microsoft had demonstrated Windows 8 for tablets earlier this year and to much of our surprise it has UI elements taken from Windows Phone 7 seen above, and if Huang’s comments are true, it would not be surprising as rival Apple has begun merging its mobile and desktop elements together in the latest version of Mac OS X known as Lion. Additionally it would also help ARM tablets compete with x86 tablets running Windows 8. Intel had made claims in the past that only Windows 8 tablets with x86 architecture will be able to run legacy apps, meaning apps made for our PC today as ARM tablets will have separate ARM-based apps to run based on HTML5.
Hopefully, by extending the scope of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft would be able to attract even more developers. The company allows apps to be developed either utilizing the XNA framework or through Silverlight.
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