In my previous job I ran a 32 core SGI box to run fluid dynamic simulations. Of course, with Linux. Would not trust Windows for a moment on that setup.
My point is your case is very specialised and so is mine. We are happy about our respective setups and none is disputing that fact.
The point of this article is about comparing Windows and Ubuntu for a 'normal' user.
Indians use a different system of counting. After the thousand, they have a name for every second power of ten (unlike the western system of naming every third power).
The system goes like this:
1000: 1e3: Thousand
100 thousands: 1e5 : Lakh
100 lakhs : 1e7 : Crore
So 386 crores at about 46 INR a dollar is about 86 million USD.
There is one more company that is making these and apparently they did a demo in CES this year. See here http://www.lightblueoptics.com/ They have a nice set of 'artists impression' of their applications !
To me it just looks like OEM with Microsoft brand. Just like GE Toasters and Electric Kettles. Someone makes them and uses an established brand to sell them. Everyone makes money. This surely does not mean Microsoft will compete with Apple et.al. While on the topic, let me tell how the PC market in India works. If you need a PC, you go ask the local geek to assemble one for you for a fee of about 1000-2000 Rs (25-50 USD). The hardware is 'orally' guranteed for one year and in most cases honoured. Your local geek will also install a pirated version of XP and just as customer service a copy of MS-Office, Adobe Photoshop, Matlab and what-not. All pirated of course. Only corporate customers buy from Dell/HP/HCL/Zenieth. What Zeneith is trying to do here is to convince MS that with their brand, they will sell more PCs and MS will have more authentic copies of OS in circulation. Microsoft is anyway not making any money with individual buyers so they should be fine with porting a stripped down version for this purpose and make SOME money. Being a pre-cog I am, I think this model will go nowhere as long as you can still buy a higher spec PC assembled and guranteed with all the software coming free.
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TFA is sparse on tech details. So how exactly nano-particles know if a cell is cancerous or not?
In my previous job I ran a 32 core SGI box to run fluid dynamic simulations. Of course, with Linux. Would not trust Windows for a moment on that setup.
My point is your case is very specialised and so is mine. We are happy about our respective setups and none is disputing that fact.
The point of this article is about comparing Windows and Ubuntu for a 'normal' user.
Indians use a different system of counting. After the thousand, they have a name for every second power of ten (unlike the western system of naming every third power). The system goes like this: 1000: 1e3: Thousand 100 thousands: 1e5 : Lakh 100 lakhs : 1e7 : Crore So 386 crores at about 46 INR a dollar is about 86 million USD.
There is one more company that is making these and apparently they did a demo in CES this year.
See here http://www.lightblueoptics.com/ They have a nice set of 'artists impression' of their applications !
To me it just looks like OEM with Microsoft brand. Just like GE Toasters and Electric Kettles. Someone makes them and uses an established brand to sell them. Everyone makes money.
This surely does not mean Microsoft will compete with Apple et.al.
While on the topic, let me tell how the PC market in India works.
If you need a PC, you go ask the local geek to assemble one for you for a fee of about 1000-2000 Rs (25-50 USD). The hardware is 'orally' guranteed for one year and in most cases honoured. Your local geek will also install a pirated version of XP and just as customer service a copy of MS-Office, Adobe Photoshop, Matlab and what-not. All pirated of course.
Only corporate customers buy from Dell/HP/HCL/Zenieth.
What Zeneith is trying to do here is to convince MS that with their brand, they will sell more PCs and MS will have more authentic copies of OS in circulation. Microsoft is anyway not making any money with individual buyers so they should be fine with porting a stripped down version for this purpose and make SOME money.
Being a pre-cog I am, I think this model will go nowhere as long as you can still buy a higher spec PC assembled and guranteed with all the software coming free.