This is colossal:

Sinofsky also said that the Windows-on-ARM machines will come with several Office apps — Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote — that have been tuned to run in a very battery-efficient manner. But Sinofsky said that, although those applications will run in the traditional Windows desktop, they will be the only programs allowed to do so, other than components of Windows itself.

“There are no other compiled dekstop apps that are available,” Sinofsky told AllThingsD. All of the other apps for Windows on ARM will be the new-style “Metro” apps.

Windows 8 for Intel and AMD chips, by contrast, will be able to run all of the kinds of programs that have traditionally run on Windows, inside a Windows 7-like desktop environment.

Let's just repeat that: “There are no other compiled dekstop apps that are available”. It's going to be a totally new world on those tablets. Can it still be called "Windows"?

Really detailed look at ARM's new Cortex-15 architecture, and also the Apple options relating to it.

"Intel is taking on arch rival ARM today with the launch of new Intel Atom chips for tablet computers.<br />
"The Atom is a low-power version of Intel’s computer chips, and it is aimed squarely at tablets, netbooks, and smartphones. It represents the chip giant’s best chance to catch up with ARM, which dominates the mobile space with its power-efficient chip architecture and dozens of chip design partners.<br />
"Code-named Oak Trail, the new Intel Atom Z670 processor will appear in 35 tablet computers and other mobile devices this year, said Bill Kircos, general manager of marketing for Intel’s netbook and tablet group, in an interview."<br />
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Bear in mind that if you see a headline that ends with a questionmark, it is usually correctly answered with "No".