Windows

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Five Windows products are of primary interest to enterprise customers:

Windows 8—the Windows client OS for devices with an AMD or Intel x86 or x64 processor
Windows RT—the Windows client OS for devices with an ARM processor
Windows Phone—the Windows client OS for smartphones with an ARM processor
Windows Server 2012—the Windows server OS for servers with an AMD or Intel x64 processors
Internet Explorer (IE) 10—the Windows browser.

With this edition of the Enterprise Software Roadmap, Directions on Microsoft is adding Windows Phone as an OS of interest to enterprises because users’ smartphones increasingly access an organization’s business applications and data.

In addition, Microsoft has two computer hardware products of interest to enterprises:

Surface RT, a hybrid laptop-tablet with an ARM processor, a multitouch monitor, and a removable keyboard that runs Windows RT
Surface Pro, a hybrid laptop-tablet with an x64 processor, a multitouch monitor, and a removable

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