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Acer Launching Dual Android/Windows 7 Netbook
Barence writes "Acer has unveiled an Aspire netbook that dual boots Google Android and Windows 7. 'User demand is not there for [other forms of] Linux [but] we never give up. We adjust,' said Jim Wong, Acer senior corporate vice president. 'We introduce Android with the Windows OS, and why Android? Because it has the best connectivity built into the OS.' Acer has also talked up Google's forthcoming Chrome OS. 'Chrome can be a viable alternative to Microsoft's OSes for web applications on different mobile devices,' he explained."
Wouldn't be better to offer fast booting Linux (Moblin?) and dual boot with Win? Then users can access nice and quick Linux environment or wait for Win if they "really" need Office.
Android is good for phones, but that's how far it goes...
"an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often, quite often, picturesque liar" - Mark Twain
http://www.androidx86.org/
The key reason he used for keeping windows around was productivity and IE....
I mean there are plenty of reasons for keeping windows around such as gaming, users are used to it, etc.
But productivity and IE? I really don't know anyone who has used other brothers and still says that IE is a better browser, its basically that people just don't know about other browsers. As for productivity that is so far gone I can barely even respond to that...one word. "Openoffice" schools and businesses have been using it for years.
That line shouldn't be "a lot of websites are still optimised for IE"...
It should be "a lot of websites are still spending hours upon hours trying to function correctly with IE"
If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good
Because it has the best connectivity built into the OS
Riiiight. And any other flavor of Linux is only able to connect at the equivalent level of a coffee can and string telephone. I think the real reason is because Android is a new shiny thing with lots of hype and a comforting corporate mother figure we can all snuggle up to and suckle on.
I am becoming gerund, destroyer of verbs.
But a better browsing experience with IE?All I can respond with is, "wtf?"
Indeed. My IE experience is much nicer in Linux than it is on Windows.
Ill take any darn OS if i just can avoid paying the Microsoft tax. The common misconception that nobody wanted Linux on netbooks is utter bullshit. They sold boatloads of netbooks before they started shipping them with a heavily discounted XP and suddenly, despite consumer demand they also yanked any Linux loaded netbook.
HTTP/1.1 400
Really?
What have companies do to seriously create or satisfy that demand?
They try a shy toe in the water (like ASUS did), are wildly successful with a Linux only product, and then, as soon as Microsoft asks them to wag the tail, roll in and play dead they do so, in some cases with particular relish.
The demand, or at the very least, interest, is there: trade magazines, conferences, server installations and desktop installations (many of which are not publicized because they are done internally by big companies, you would be surprised to know some of the names doing this) say the demand is there.
Google Linux for bunnies sakes, the amount of information out there is astronomic. That is simply not coherent with lack of interest.
The demand for half hearted attempts to make Linux available may not be there, but I would like to see if there is no demand for a Linux machine running a well configured enterpirse distribution (RedHat, Ubuntu or even SuSe) backed up by proper marketing (Dell has spreads almost every day in free newspapers here in London, I would like to see the same kind of commitment and effort put towards a line of machines runing Linux exclusively).
Don't tell me the demand is not there when you have not tried seriously to satisfy a need.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.