PC Plus Packs Windows and Android Into Same Machine

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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Re:Dupe Plus Packs Two Articles into Same Subject

[hairyfeet]

Sorry, gotta throw a flag, bullshit on the field. if anything Linux (which the community is quick to claim Android as their own) is MORE vulnerable than Windows as Android has reached over a million infections a full decade faster than Windows reached that milestone BTW, and unlike Windows which has several damned good sandboxing antivirus packages, including some really good free ones, Google has made sure that antivirus on android is useless as they have no way to uninstall or even stop a malicious app.

Of course the whole thing just proves what many of us has been saying for years, that Linux is just as easy to infect if not more so than Windows and OSX and that once Linux gained any popularity, so that it was no longer benefiting from security by obscurity that it would pay the price. Oh and before anybody chimes in with the totally pointless tidbit about Linux servers? You see those are actually administered by these things called...wait for it..."server admins" that have had years of education and experience before being let loose on those systems. Linux benefited from security by obscurity in the consumer space because so few actually used it in that arena, Google ended that with android.

So ironically the act that Windows has functional sandboxing antivirus may actually help to keep these android systems from getting infected, instead of the other way around.