Windows 7 on the Touchpad?

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Any chance of or anyone know how to put win 7 onto my touchpad? I think it would make a great candidate for it.

Not possible natively as W7 doesn't offer an ARM port, unlike W8, which will. Now W7 via an emulator, that is another story.

As tbaker wrote you -
different architecture -
Mac OS & Windows uses x86/x86-64.

Android & iOS uses ARM.

Windows 8 will be also compiled against ARM.

TouchPad is Snapdragon ARM based.

Another thing to keep in mind is how much source is available.
Android is Open-Source from ground so usually once drivers are being written you can get it up & running to some extent.
Not the same with other platforms (Eg. W7 & iOS on Android devices)

Originally Posted by tbaker077

Not possible natively as W7 doesn't offer an ARM port, unlike W8, which will. Now W7 via an emulator, that is another story.

I bet that would run like a dead dog. :)

Originally Posted by piiman

I bet that would run like a dead dog. :)

I'd be far more interested in getting Windows 8 (beta/alpha?) on this thing

Originally Posted by SynGamer

I'd be far more interested in getting Windows 8 (beta/alpha?) on this thing

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1229307

W7 would run like absolute garbage on it most likely.

Windows 7 isn't ARM compliant but Windows 7 Compact Embeded is.

oups no it's not.

Sorry, i reboot my brain :

- Windows Embedded Compact 7 can run on ARM, MIPS, x86

- Windows Embedded Standard 7 can run on x86 / x64 only.

- Windows Phone 7 can be an another option to run Windows on HP touchpad...

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• Download a 180-day trial edition
of Windows Embedded Compact 7
• Create product demos and build real
proof-of-concept devices to show to
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