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PC Plus Packs Windows and Android Into Same Machine

Posted by timothy on from the or-splashtop-plus-if-you'd-prefer dept.

jones_supa writes "At the mammoth Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in early January, it is expected that multiple computer makers will unveil systems that simultaneously run two different operating systems, both Windows and Android, two different analysts said recently. The new devices will introduce a new marketing buzzword called PC Plus, explained Tim Bajarin of Creative Strategies. 'A PC Plus machine will run Windows 8.1 but will also run Android apps as well', Bajarin wrote recently for Time. 'They are doing this through software emulation. I'm not sure what kind of performance you can expect, but this is their way to try and bring more touch-based apps to the Windows ecosystem.' Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, suggests that PC Plus could get millions of consumers more comfortable with Android on PCs. 'Just imagine for a second what happens when Android gets an improved large-screen experience. This should scare the heck out of Microsoft.'"

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  1. Screen resolution for laptops? by CockMonster · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1366x768 just doesn't cut it, no matter how many OSes you stick on it.

  2. This is not new and not news, either. by kheldan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So you run Android in a VM inside Windows. So what? This isn't a new trick, and it's not newsworthy either. It smacks of shameless shilling. Seriously, nothing to see here, move along..

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  3. Woohoo more experience by thegarbz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Has anyone else taken a skeptical view of the word "experience"? I don't want to "experience" a computer. I just want a functional computer that works.

    'Just imagine for a second what happens when Android gets an improved large-screen experience.'

    I don't need to imagine much. When you use any system for something its not designed for the only thing that it will experience is its own demise.

  4. Re:Dupe Plus Packs Two Articles into Same Subject by Anubis+IV · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, I'm kinda reading this as something along the lines of...

    Exec: So, based on the Ouya's wild success since its launch...
    *crickets*
    Exec: ...we'e decided Android has proven it can work outside of mobile devices and that it's time to implement an entire PC around it. And since people love dual booting...
    *crickets*
    Exec: ...we expect it to be a smashing success!

    This product idea is basically a shot across the bow to Microsoft from the hardware manufacturers, telling MS that they're actively looking for alternatives and that MS had better do something about it. But they're not as clueless as the executive I painted above. They know that this product will flop, because normal people don't want to deal with wondering why they can't use their app unless they reboot or why their data isn't accessible from where they are, and the decision makers know that Android is not ready to be run as a desktop OS.

    I predict that we'll only see a handful, if even that, of these come to market, and that most will be killed before they ever get close to launching, since it isn't about selling them: it's about sending a message to Microsoft.

  5. Re:Trojans by lxs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You mean after choosing to download a malicious application, choosing to install it, and choosing the grant it permission, Windows allows me to use software that DOES things to my computer that I may consider detrimental?

    Yeah but for some sites you really need to have Adobe Flash installed.