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Why can't Windows 7 be installed on a ARM processor based system?
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Mar 15, 202622336 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Today I was reading some news(1, 2, 3, 4) about Microsoft Windows 8 and saw that one of the new features is that it can run over a ARM processor based system. This make me wondering the reasons that it cannot be done with the current release version of Windows(Seven). What are the actual limitation…
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Fix for: Why can't Windows 7 be installed on a ARM processor based system?
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For binaries to run on an ARM processor, they have to be compiled for that processor specifically or be run in an emulator. Since Linux systems are open source, people can compile them specifically for ARM systems and rewrite any x86 specific code. …
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