Will Windows 8 on ARM be available only as something preloaded on new tablets and PCs from selected vendors? We still dont know for sure.



From All About Microsoft:

All the recent back and forth over Microsoft disallowing the installation of other operating systems on Windows 8 ARM tablets seems to me to be obscuring a bigger and more interesting question: Will Windows 8 on ARM be an OEM-only product?

In other words, unlike the situation with Windows 8 for Intel — where testers and users can download Windows 8 bits and install them on tablets and PCs of their choice — will Windows 8 on ARM be locked to specific hardware?

  Will Windows 8 on ARM be an OEM-only product?