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MrSeb writes "As far back as the late ’80s, Bill Gates has floated the idea of “Windows Everywhere.” The idea, as you can probably guess, is to put a Windows operating system on any and all devices with a CPU somewhere under the hood. At the New York PC Expo in 1997, on the back of Windows CE 1.0 — a cut-down ARM version of Windows for embedded devices — Steve Ballmer expounded on Gates’ Windows Everywhere vision, extolling the virtues of “softer software, the notion that software will adapt and shape and customize itself to you,” and a toolchain that would allow developers to run their Windows apps on any Windows computer. At the time, pundits and journalists laughed at the idea. Now, however, with news that Windows Phone 8 will use the Windows 8 NT kernel, the Windows Everywhere dream might just come true. With the flip of a switch, Windows 8 apps can be ported to Windows Phone 8. Full DirectX support in WP8 means that it'll be easy to port PC games to WP8, too. Finally, there's the tantalizing possibility that the Xbox 720 will also use the Windows 8 kernel, and thus a unified Windows Store across PC, phone, and console. Windows everywhere!"
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