Report: Microsoft ports Windows Server to ARM
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Well, that cat's finally coming out of the bag. In what's seen in the tech world as an inevitable future, ARM-based chips look to be heading en masse to servers worldwide-in this case, those in Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. According to Bloomberg, the computing giant ported Windows Server to the ARM architecture and is currently testing ARM chips in servers, in preparation for a production deployment in the near future.
Bloomberg says that Microsoft made Windows run on ARM CPUs in a partnership with Qualcomm and Cavium . Microsoft is testing the new chips in search, storage, machine learning, and big-data tasks. The chips ...