notebooks and ARM-based tablets from Texas Instruments Inc., (TXN) Qualcomm Inc. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant showed the upcoming OS, codenamed Windows 8, running on a variety of platforms including AMD and Intel Corp. (MSFT) gave the world it’s long awaited preview of Windows 8 at the All Things “D” conference in California and the Computex trade show in Taiwan. TAIPEI, Taiwan - It was another significant week in the mobile device world this week as Microsoft Corp.