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Windows 10 Ported To OnePlus 6T Smartphone (androidpolice.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Qualcomm has been building laptop processors for a while now, designed for always-on Windows 10 ultraportables. Now that an ARM version of Windows 10 is widely available and works with Snapdragon processors, the gates have opened for porting the operating system to smartphones. @NTAuthority on Twitter already demoed Windows 10 on a Pixel 3 XL, but now they have ported it to the OnePlus 6T. In a series of tweets and replies, NTAuthority showed off the touchscreen working, with many applications (including Google Chrome) fully functional. The most impressive demo was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 running on the phone, using Windows' built-in x86 emulation compatibility layer.
a device that has Windows 10 as it's operating system.
;)
Just my 2 cents
Really WHY!
Not that it wasn't designed to be a shit-filled turd in the first place, running DumbedDownGoogleSpyOS (or iDesignedForMentallyDisabledOS) on a piece of planned-obsolescence defective-by-design anti-feature nightmare fest.
Seriously, why is everything so retarded nowadays?? ... remove gears and brakes, make the handlebar tiny. ... buy a SUV, aka ALL the disadvantages and none of advantages of all types of vehicles combined. ... phablet smartphones, see above. ... you get it by now.
Really *really* factually statistically significant mentally retarded, in the medical sense.
It's like every time people could make a choice, the make the dumbest *possible* choice (that lets them keep making even dumber choices).
Bicycles
Cars
Computers
Government
I hope that Intel doesn't go and try to screw this up by suing like they threatened to.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/09/intel_sends_arm_a_shot_across_bow/
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3011638/qualcomm-responds-to-intels-rant-about-x86-emulation-on-arm
Fedora ported to my desktop PC.
As much as Microsoft earned it's negative reputation among some folks, the alternative-- Google only-- is far worse. Microsoft only got out of hand when they monopolized. Competition is the antiseptic. Hopefully google can be rescued from evil.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
People laugh at "too big to fail".
But psychologically, for something to stand out, e.g. as being utterly stupid, it by definition has to *stand out*. And be in the measurable range.
One school shooting is horrifying. ... "Why is this news?". ... and it's just like an explosion isn't a sound anymore if you're in it. It just becomes "+INFINITY".
A school shooting every week, like it is the case now, and
100 million people murdered
It has become "normal".
As in: It became the norm.
Not that is is an any way even remotely sane or non-harmful.
Frankly, I think we're past the point of no return, and the fastest way out, is to accelerate it. Vote Trumpllary! Vote Putin! Kim-Yong Mugabe for world leader! ... ;)
Jew phone. Tech support is India. Why fuck up hardware with Windows?
Sorry, bur outside of your hellhole there are places where money is not a necessity.
Can't eat, drink or fuck it. (Of course Americans probably have a literal Dollar smoothie and Dollar-stuffel Fleshlight.)
And it's not a good bedding or house building material either. Especially the purely digital / credit card kind.
Sure, I use money. To pay for Internet access. But 1. I get it from selling solar electricity, and 2. I don't *need* it. I have friends, you knoe. In real life. And grow my own food.
I ran a 65 people small business in a very wealthy place, by the way.
Never brought any happiness whatsover. Only hollow *things* and stress.
...where Clippy and Microsoft Bob touched you.
So they basically re-invented the Windows Phone? How well did that go before?
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Windows RT already failed on ARM.
-- Just my $0.02 worth...
I always thought Microsoft should port Windows to the biggest selling phones and sell it like they do with PCs.
Hear me out:
A living entity is surviving because it came from those living entites that were the most efficient.
Its instinct is to save every bit of effort it can get away with.
And being a *person* is quite a lot of effort.
Being *livestock*, a *limb* or a mere *tool*, used by an actual person, is waaay easier.
Still get to spread your genes. Even if at the cost of utterly degenerating. Nature don't care. Bacteria are also very successful life on this planet.
And those actual persons (corporate swarm entites) just found that ripping people off is *the* most efficient way of growing their bodies. And breeding retards is *the* most efficent way of making that easy.
Sorry. Murphy's law number 13: Mother nature is a bitch.
I doubt you know anything beyond being a meme parrot.
Oh, and: Give actual reasons.
No "Beacuase is stoopid!" et al.
Who wins that race? Or is it being joined together?
See https://www.howtogeek.com/3401... and https://elgan.com/blog/why-i-d...
So, now we get Microsoft's public telemetry info being sucked from Windows 10 machines or phone-based platforms? http://investmentwatchblog.com... which includes:
- Typed text on keyboard sent every 30 minutes
- Transmits anything you say into a microphone
- Transcripts of things you say while using Cortana
- Index of all media files on your computer
- When your webcam is first enabled, 35mb of data
- Telemetry data
I'm a OnePlus phone owner (prior to all of this being disclosed), but even I'm considering not getting another one. I can't begin to imagine piling Windows 10 on top of it!
Vote for us! We're currently playing nice because competition is keeping us in the underdog position! That will totally still be the case when we get any bit of power back again!
And somehow, the livestock never wants to realize they are switching good cop bad cop seats every 4-8 years, and do real great teamwork there.
Great news for hackers!
Who wants a version of Windows that doesn't run Windows software?
Windows 10 was a step back for touch screens and the Windows store barely has any what you would call top notch apps. It barely works as a tablet on devices like the Surface Go. ARM isn't the magic hardware for Windows some seem to have created in their heads. On a phone I want Android or IOS period. Yeah the ARM cpu's can handle Windows 10 to a point, mostly with native apps that work with ARM. Beyond that it get's real foggy.
This comes to exemplify what whas obvious for anyone with a modicum of computing knowledge.
If/when the Mac goes to ARM, it would be trivialy easy, from the technical point of view, to develop a version of Windows for ARM for said Mac computers.
The complicated part will be to make the Three companies agree, Namely Apple (to develop ARM bootcamp and ARM Windows Drivers), Microsoft (to adapt the OS if needed), and Qualcomm (they may have some intelectual property on parts of this windows for ARM thing, especially the X86-32 emulation bits).
Other than that, easy peasy!
*** Suerte a todos y Feliz dia!
So does this mean that dual-booting both Windows 10 and Android on a smartphone is realistically possible?
I don't think so. This is Windows 10 on ARM, which is not really a phone OS. What this really demonstrates is that phones (at least at a certain level) are now powerful enough to run a desktop OS straight up.
That said, I did have Windows 10 Mobile (1709, the final version) running and working acceptably, if slowly, in a 5-year old Nokia 635. Not ideal, but it worked. Until the power button broke. Might be interesting to see if the new WforARM could be crammed into something as puny, hardware-wise, as that. Getting it to run in a OnePlus 6T should be difficult at all: plenty of RAM, storage, and CPU.
And for security - how is Windows running? If it's running as a subsystem under Linux, no thanks - overhead, and all the security issues with OnePlus and Android plus Windows. If Windows is running directly on the hardware, though, it's probably better than current versions of Android and apps that all insist on full control of the computer. W10 actually isn't too difficult to control in terms of telemetry. Not eliminate, but control to a level far below what Android does.
Let me just wipe my tears with all that freedom and relaxing from not slaving away for the golden calf.
Oh how I wish I had three jobs, two mortages, a toothpick-and-cardboard "house" filled with useless shiny trinkets, and my daily stuffing of fear of being shot, media propaganda and assholes in an asshole society!
You will find boring the most wonderful thing in the world some day too.
Nature knows no boredom. It is an invention of the city folks.
-- a saying in my country.
What tough insults. Wow. Did you learn those in middle school?
That comment is saying more about you than about me.
Actually, it's only telling us about you.
Get help. Please.
What a logic! How about you try my 1GB Virus.exe here? It's self-encrypted and obfuscated by being written only in MOV instructions.
So it must be the safest ever! Not a single security hole reported since 2002!
Oh, and you're clearly not a computer user. Or you would not consider "the desktop" a good idea in the first place. You'd prefer something scriptable at the very least. Something to automate your work away, not save the work that you wouldn't have without its cumbersomeness. Something that could be feedl assembled, compiled and resconfigured to fit the user perfectly like a glove. Something like Multics/Unix/BSD/Linux. A real operating system, for computer users!
No even close to a Beowulf cluster so pretty worthless.
Besides, Windows being ported to X, Y or Z is not new. It's been done for a couple of decades at the very least. It just always sucks. Does this one suck less? Probably not.
LoB
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
Who let all these trolls out of their cages at the same time? More moderation would seem to be called for.
That is just cruel! There ought to be a law about such things.
That's a piece of really great news.