Microsoft demos Server 2016 running on ARM

[NumLock21]

At the OCP 2017 Summit, Microsoft has demo showing off their Server 2016 OS running on a Qualcomm ARMv8 48 core ARM processor. To make this happen, Microsoft had to port certain parts of the Server 2016 OS to work with ARM.

 

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This is an internal version of the OS running .NET services for Microsoft’s cloud services. Here is the official quote from Microsoft’s blog post:

To enable these cloud services, we’ve ported a version of Windows Server, for our internal use only, to run on ARM architecture. We have ported language runtime systems and middleware components, and we have ported and evaluated applications, often running these workloads side-by-side with production workloads.

 

It's a bummer that retail version won't work. Maybe one day they will release a this internal version out into the market, and we have more cpu choices to choose from.

 

https://www.servethehome.com/here-is-the-demo-of-qualcomm-centriq-running-windows-sever-2016/

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5 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

At the OCP 2017 Summit, Microsoft has demo showing off their Server 2016 OS running on a Qualcomm ARMv8 48 core ARM processor. To make this happen, Microsoft had to port certain parts of the Server 2016 OS to work with ARM.

 

It's a bummer that retail version won't work. Maybe one day they will release a this internal version out into the market, and we have more cpu choices to choose from.

 

https://www.servethehome.com/here-is-the-demo-of-qualcomm-centriq-running-windows-sever-2016/

That's really nice to be honest, can't wait to install Windows on a new Android phone...