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Microsoft reintroduced Windows for ARM architectures with Windows 8 after dumping it years back in the days of Windows CE. ARM is a much better choice for low-power devices like phones and tablets than the x86 architecture (but Intel may manage to fix this one day...)
Availability of Windows for ARM doesn't mean you can take a binary Windows application from a PC and run it on ARM Windows. You need to cross compile it from source code to make an ARM binary. Sometime the source code will also need to be modified if it hasn't been written with portability in mind. For commercial products, it will be up to the vendors to decide if this effort is worthwhile, so there is no guarantee that your favorite Astronomy applications will be available.
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