"Hewlett-Packard seems more determined than ever to flee the Windows reservation, unveiling a $170 Android tablet, the HP Slate 7. It runs Google Android 4.1, the first version of the 'Jelly Bean' build, which has been ever so slightly outdated by the recent release of Android 4.2. This isn't the first time in recent memory that HP's opted for a Google product over one offered by longtime partner Microsoft. As it helpfully pointed out in a press release, HP has produced a Chromebook running Google's Chrome OS, a largely cloud-dependent operating system for laptops and notebooks. Built around Google services such as Gmail, Chrome OS also offers access to the Chrome Web Store, an online storefront for apps. If HP and other manufacturers increasingly adopt Google's offerings over Windows, it could cause some consternation among Microsoft executives. Microsoft, of course, is pushing Windows 8, which is meant to run on tablets and traditional PCs with equal facility. If it wants the Windows division to continue as a cash cow, it needs manufacturers to adopt that operating system in massive numbers. Android and Chrome OS could make that strategy a lot more difficult."
What has Chrome OS got to do with HP making Android tablets that it deserves a huge section of the summary to shill it?
By the same token, a huge section of "Windows Malware" also has nothing to do with Windows Security. Yet we see hundreds of modded up posts on Slashdot bashing Microsoft over it regularly, yet Apple seems to be getting a free pass just like Android.
During our investigation, we found a small number of computers, including some in our Mac business unit, that were infected by malicious software using techniques similar to those documented by other organizations.
It wasn't just the Macs. This was an attack on the Oracle java browser plugin, not an attack on a specific platform.
Troll less, recoiledsnake.kthxbai.
That can imply that Macs are being used elsewhere in Microsoft apart from the Mac Business Unit. The malware was hosted on an iPhone dev site, and Microsoft has a lot of iPhone app development going on with Bing, Photosynth, Xbox etc. which are not part of the Mac Business Unit.
The computers hacked at Facebook were Macs. (Facebook devs pretty much use Macs exclusively). The ones at Apple were pretty obviously Macs. So the implied assumption in the absence of concrete information is that it was pretty much all Macs even at Microsoft targeted by this particular hack(although the exploit itself was cross platform).
Didn't thousands of +5 insightful posts on Slashdot tell us over the years that the Mac and Linux were immune to malware because of the superior "UNIX design" etc. ?
And now we have the huge malware problem on Android and Macs are increasingly being targeted despite the superior design or whatever.
Yet this place refuses to acknowledge it and the prolific posters all jump on the anti-MS bandwagon to whore karma, like the submitter and the editors with just about every Microsoft story.
No wonder this place is turning into a empty echo chamber and getting hugely less popular by the day.
1. Amazon lists Chromebooks outselling Windows 8 PCs.As the largest online retailer, they reflect larger trends. 2. Acer outright says Chromebooks are outselling Windows 8 PCs. 3. HP said in response to these sales trends they're cutting back Windows 8 models and putting forth a Chromebook model suddenly.
1) Amazon doesn't really reflect anything in the broader market. For example, in the past Nokia Lumia windows phones were leading Amazon. Also, being the bestseller is way different from outselling others. 2) Acer did not say anything even close to that. 5% of 10% of their Acer sales is nowhere close to "Chromebooks are outselling Windows 8 PCs" Please stop making up things. 3)Yes, it takes a few weeks to manufacture and put a new OS model on shelves. Really?
Instead of the FUD in the summary, head over to Anandtech for a better review. Or just continue supporting the dumbification of PCs by promoting iPads.
Surface RT is $499, not $900. You're thinking about the Surface Pro, about which details are not fully out yet, but it is widely expected to have the ability to turn Secure Boot off.
What are you blabbering about? The Surface RT doesn't even run a single Win32 app which is at the root of the Windows' monopoly. The EC will just laugh you off.
Either the FSF is spreading FUD to mislead people like you or there are a lot of dumb people around foaming at the mouth.
The article, summary and you'r parent post are about the Surface RT ARM tablet, it has nothing to do with commodity hardware. You can buy any "real" PC out there, turn off UEFI secure boot and run whatever you want.
Very dubious, because I think I can prove historically security is not a hardware issue, it is a human issue. I am not pulling this out of my arse either, I can site a huge list of failed hardware security solutions, which DO NOT WORK
Huh what? Hardware based lockdown like what Apple has on the iPhone and iPad works very well for security from malware because it takes the casual user out of the equation. That's why Android has a huge malware problem while iOS does not.
Have you been asleep the past 5 years and just woken up or something?
Let me fill you in. Apple released the iPhone and iPad with locked down app stores and rejecting competing apps or sitting endlessly on them, They even rejected an Android magazine app. Meanwhile, Slashdot was more interested in bashing Microsoft. Now, ranting about MS which has a 0.1% marketshare in tablets just looks silly without mentioning Apple, Kindle Fire etc. which are shipping tens of millions a quarter.
Oh and by the way, Duke Nukem Forever was released.
Apple pioneered it and made it acceptable by implementing Palladium and the media and Apple fanboys smothered the opposition while Slashdot posters were more concerned with taking down MS and scoring moderator points with cheapshots rather than caring for user or developer freedom.
Groklaw was cheering Apple on. They and their audience(just like Slashdot) seem more concerned on bringing Micrrosoft down rather than fight for true user and developer freedom.
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It's cheap because Google subsidizes it with their monopoly search profits and tries to make it back on ads and spying on users.
There is no way that another OEM or standalone company can make a profit on it at that cost.
A Firefox OS or Ubuntu phone is much more open, unless they allow the carriers to mess them up.
What are they going stop piracy, since it's all HTML and JS?
Does it mean that's it's trivial to copy paid apps and send them to your friends?
Oh really, Mr. Anonymous Shill Astroturf Coward employee?
Explain this.
http://rt.com/usa/google-privacy-android-app-429/
>Google will add editing functionality in the next two to three months
What? An Office suite without editing functionality on a $1300 device? Computers were more capable in the 70s and 80s.
Also look at the summary from the story yesterday about HP making Android tablets:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/02/25/2129208/hp-continuing-to-flee-windows-reservation-with-android-tablet?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
"Hewlett-Packard seems more determined than ever to flee the Windows reservation, unveiling a $170 Android tablet, the HP Slate 7. It runs Google Android 4.1, the first version of the 'Jelly Bean' build, which has been ever so slightly outdated by the recent release of Android 4.2. This isn't the first time in recent memory that HP's opted for a Google product over one offered by longtime partner Microsoft. As it helpfully pointed out in a press release, HP has produced a Chromebook running Google's Chrome OS, a largely cloud-dependent operating system for laptops and notebooks. Built around Google services such as Gmail, Chrome OS also offers access to the Chrome Web Store, an online storefront for apps. If HP and other manufacturers increasingly adopt Google's offerings over Windows, it could cause some consternation among Microsoft executives. Microsoft, of course, is pushing Windows 8, which is meant to run on tablets and traditional PCs with equal facility. If it wants the Windows division to continue as a cash cow, it needs manufacturers to adopt that operating system in massive numbers. Android and Chrome OS could make that strategy a lot more difficult."
What has Chrome OS got to do with HP making Android tablets that it deserves a huge section of the summary to shill it?
The shilling and astroturfing is heavy here.
By the same token, a huge section of "Windows Malware" also has nothing to do with Windows Security. Yet we see hundreds of modded up posts on Slashdot bashing Microsoft over it regularly, yet Apple seems to be getting a free pass just like Android.
The Macs at the Mac Business Unit were affected.
FTFA:
It wasn't just the Macs. This was an attack on the Oracle java browser plugin, not an attack on a specific platform.
Troll less, recoiledsnake.kthxbai.
That can imply that Macs are being used elsewhere in Microsoft apart from the Mac Business Unit. The malware was hosted on an iPhone dev site, and Microsoft has a lot of iPhone app development going on with Bing, Photosynth, Xbox etc. which are not part of the Mac Business Unit.
The computers hacked at Facebook were Macs. (Facebook devs pretty much use Macs exclusively). The ones at Apple were pretty obviously Macs. So the implied assumption in the absence of concrete information is that it was pretty much all Macs even at Microsoft targeted by this particular hack(although the exploit itself was cross platform).
I thought Macs were immune to being hacked?
Didn't thousands of +5 insightful posts on Slashdot tell us over the years that the Mac and Linux were immune to malware because of the superior "UNIX design" etc. ?
And now we have the huge malware problem on Android and Macs are increasingly being targeted despite the superior design or whatever.
Yet this place refuses to acknowledge it and the prolific posters all jump on the anti-MS bandwagon to whore karma, like the submitter and the editors with just about every Microsoft story.
No wonder this place is turning into a empty echo chamber and getting hugely less popular by the day.
Last one out, turn the lights off.
Maybe rtfa-troll and Timothy's spell checkers were hosted on Azure.
I crush it and mix with water.
Video of how-to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MMmLQlrBws
A combination of three things.
1. Amazon lists Chromebooks outselling Windows 8 PCs.As the largest online retailer, they reflect larger trends.
2. Acer outright says Chromebooks are outselling Windows 8 PCs.
3. HP said in response to these sales trends they're cutting back Windows 8 models and putting forth a Chromebook model suddenly.
1) Amazon doesn't really reflect anything in the broader market. For example, in the past Nokia Lumia windows phones were leading Amazon. Also, being the bestseller is way different from outselling others.
2) Acer did not say anything even close to that. 5% of 10% of their Acer sales is nowhere close to "Chromebooks are outselling Windows 8 PCs" Please stop making up things.
3)Yes, it takes a few weeks to manufacture and put a new OS model on shelves. Really?
Welcome to 2009.
Just a very few:
http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/mobility/218900171/10-app-store-rejects-scenes-from-apples-app-graveyard.htm
http://nearlybanned.com/
Sounds like ZBox is short for Zune Box.
Instead of the FUD in the summary, head over to Anandtech for a better review. Or just continue supporting the dumbification of PCs by promoting iPads.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6695/microsoft-surface-pro-review/
Please stop living in the past.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2012/12/21/windows-phone-now-third-most-popular-platform-in-u-s/
Bullcrap. It certainly works quite well. Certainly no reason whatsoever to redirect.
Video Proof:
http://wmpoweruser.com/video-proves-that-the-google-maps-mobile-web-app-is-perfectly-usable-on-windows-phone/
Here's a better citation from 2012, just a month ago:
http://mashable.com/2012/11/26/touch-chromebook/
Sales have so far been so small that NPD, a research company that measures sales of electronics, doesn't even bother mentioning them.
Do you or the OP have any citation stating that the sales of Chromebooks have been hurting netbooks?
Also, does anyone even remember the Chromebox?
Chromebooks? Are you serious? They sold about as (or as bad!) as the Kin.
http://www.chromebookblog.com/2011/11/early-chromebook-sales-soft-reports-digitimes/
Acer had reportedly only sold 5,000 units and Samsung was said to have had even lower sales than Acer, according to sources from the PC industry.”
That's why Google doesn't release the numbers sold even now, just like for Google TV which had similarly pathetic sales.
Slashdot summaries are dissending into chaos.
Surface RT is $499, not $900. You're thinking about the Surface Pro, about which details are not fully out yet, but it is widely expected to have the ability to turn Secure Boot off.
What are you blabbering about? The Surface RT doesn't even run a single Win32 app which is at the root of the Windows' monopoly. The EC will just laugh you off.
Either the FSF is spreading FUD to mislead people like you or there are a lot of dumb people around foaming at the mouth.
The article, summary and you'r parent post are about the Surface RT ARM tablet, it has nothing to do with commodity hardware. You can buy any "real" PC out there, turn off UEFI secure boot and run whatever you want.
Very dubious, because I think I can prove historically security is not a hardware issue, it is a human issue. I am not pulling this out of my arse either, I can site a huge list of failed hardware security solutions, which DO NOT WORK
Huh what? Hardware based lockdown like what Apple has on the iPhone and iPad works very well for security from malware because it takes the casual user out of the equation. That's why Android has a huge malware problem while iOS does not.
Have you been asleep the past 5 years and just woken up or something?
Let me fill you in. Apple released the iPhone and iPad with locked down app stores and rejecting competing apps or sitting endlessly on them, They even rejected an Android magazine app. Meanwhile, Slashdot was more interested in bashing Microsoft. Now, ranting about MS which has a 0.1% marketshare in tablets just looks silly without mentioning Apple, Kindle Fire etc. which are shipping tens of millions a quarter.
Oh and by the way, Duke Nukem Forever was released.
Apple pioneered it and made it acceptable by implementing Palladium and the media and Apple fanboys smothered the opposition while Slashdot posters were more concerned with taking down MS and scoring moderator points with cheapshots rather than caring for user or developer freedom.
Yawn, the battle was lost with Apple long ago,
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110929014241932
Groklaw was cheering Apple on. They and their audience(just like Slashdot) seem more concerned on bringing Micrrosoft down rather than fight for true user and developer freedom.