Windows 8 Setback

Stop buying new software or application for Windows! Microsoft plans to create the next version of Windows to run on ARM chips. This could means that the previous application from previous windows might not be able to run on these new Windows. Users might have to re-buy the apps for it to work with the next Windows. Users are not the only one who will get affected, but the creator or developer of these third parties software might have to re-write their programs again to enable it to run on the next version of Windows. So users!! Get ready.. Better change to linux..

Taken from http://www.businessweek.com

'Windows 8' will run on ARM chips - but third-party apps will need rewrite

Microsoft says next version of Windows will run on increasingly popular chip platform, but existing programs won't run without changes

read more at http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jan/05/microsoft-windows-8-arm-processors