Microsoft is working on Office for ARM

The company Microsoft, one of the most ardent supporters of the processor architecture x86, ARM, and realized the potential begins to adapt their software for it. Analysts expect that in 2011 will be sold to millions of ARM-based tablets, so Redmond does not want to give Google a rapidly expanding market.

The company intends to bring its most popular software development to ARM users. Suite of applications for document Microsoft Office, one of the most profitable products of Redmond, will soon be adapted to the architecture of ARM.

At the same time, Google has almost finished work on Android 3.0, code-named Honeycomb, and recently released the final version of the Chrome OS. In 2011, the assortment of tablets and net books based on the search giant's operating systems will be very broad. Microsoft has finished work on the ARM versions of Office and Windows, probably not before late 2012.

Gameplay will be one of the key moments in Windows 8

According to post information resource Tec Radar, an anonymous source at Microsoft confirmed that the software giant will be paid to the issue of computer games a lot of attention when developing the next generation of its client operating system, now known under the name Windows 8. "Windows 8 will bring PC gaming to a new level of reality. The game play is one of the key moments for the entire operating system," - said in a statement.

Microsoft Corporation in the past been criticized for its plentiful action (or inaction may be more) in relation to the game play within Windows Vista and Windows 7. The software giant recently hired the legendary founder of Voodoo , which will not allow to doubt the plans of Redmond on the priority of the game play in the next version of Windows.