If I wanted my desktop monitor to have fingerprints smeared all over it by “dragging” items from one spot to another, I’d get an OS like my phone. Personally, I despise smeary prints all over my screen so I will stay with the OS designed for desktops and laptops, thank you.
An Android OS makes sense when there’s no real keyboard or the keyboard is really tiny. Otherwise, it sucks.
Considering the horsepower available, even a slow emulator on an ultrabook will a tablet look like a snail.
I'll be interested to see how the Droid OS is made to run on bare-metal Intel X86 pc's and server's ...
Always said Droid would be a game-changer if it ran on the desktop. That's the only real serious competition to Microsoft IMO. (I say that as an Ubuntu and Linux Mint fan, btw.)
I ain't changing for none of ya'll!
What would we do without the ANAL-lists?!
If they are wanting to run android apps on PCs as standard operating environment why don’t they just put a couple android compatible CPUs on the motherboard as slave CPUs and go with it. They have already standardized multiprocessor design, so take it to the next step and just put a couple as slave processors on the MB and rock n roll. All IO functions will be managed by the main processor core.
That would allow them to push PCs into the world of asymmetric multiprocessing which is a steep they have needed to take for a long time.
So far,so good.
Crappy would be my guess.
Personally I think that Microsoft could make a fortune with a stripped down version of Windows tailored for specific user needs and MS and third party software.
Imagine how fast your computer would be if the 50-75(?)% of Windows you didn’t need and never used, was not there to inhibit its operations?
The way to do this is for MS to create an online app, in which users would list just the hardware and software that they use. The MS would calculate exactly what you need, and you could pay for and download your new OS that would be burned to DVD.
This would be very profitable for MS as well, because any other software you wanted you would buy ala carte, because to make it mesh perfectly with just your OS, your OS would need to be rearranged a little.
AMD is coming out with new cheeps that’ll run like a hurricane, they say. Then there are the Chromebooks. Waiting for ASUS’es m’self!
Imagine if you can switch between Windows and Ubuntu at a touch of a button!
The haters of Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc, etc, etc, would be happy in the Soviet paradise where a single brand (if and when it was available) ruled. Ridiculous fanaticisms (and calling others ‘fanatics’.)
Unfortunately the established market isn't quite that subject to fad. I loved my iPad when I had it but it wasn't a substitute for a multi-screen desktop with a dozen windows running simultaneously. That's how working people work. If your biggest demand all day is "Plants vs Zombies" you probably don't need it. But guess what? The people who have that dozen windows open simultaneously spend a heckuva lot more money than BillySue with her iPad, and they - we - don't like being bullied into a new (shudder at the word) paradigm just because the cool kids all run their cellphones that way.
I wasn't really angry at the issue until the Metro interface turned up on SERVER2012. F'Petessake, who has a server with a touchscreen? My CIO made a flat decision right then that we'd wait for R2 because this thing wasn't usable unless you ran Core and we already have Linux sysadmins. Don't get me wrong, I love PowerShell, but try administering IIS with it. Best of luck.
So there I am at work, trying to run a server through a command line, and at home I have a Linux box with a GUI. What the hell happened here?
Multiple OS’s? My first computer was a Commodore 128 (1985). It had three OS’s. I replaced it in 1988 with a PC AT clone made in Hong Kong. It ran at 8mhz with a “turbo” button that increased the clock to 12mhz.
•C64 Mode - 1Mhz, 8502 CPU with 6510 emulation, 99.8% compatible with Commodore 64 BASIC 2.0 hardware and software, accessed by holding down the [Commodore] key while booting, or by typing “GO 64” from the C128 Mode.
•C128 Mode - 2Mhz 8502 CPU, 128K Memory, 80 x 25 RGB display, advanced BASIC 7.0 with many new commands including powerful high resolution displays and graphics manipulation.
•CP/M Mode - 4Mhz Zilog Z-80 CPU, 100% compatible with CP/M 3.0 applications such as Turbo Pascal and WordStar. Accessed by booting with a CP/M disk in the drive, or by typing “BOOT” from the C128 Mode
Those were the days. :)
