This original source article includes a discussion of the architecture involved - and the person they interviewed admits he hasn't seen it in action, and has no idea how it works. He suggests it could be one of three approaches - dual boot, an Android API within Windows (somewhat akin to Bluestacks), or a VM running within Windows. I would add a fourth - a hypervisor, permitting both OSes to run concurrently as VMs - though that seems unlikely, as it would require the OEMs to license Windows differently, as I understand it.
Interesting times. I agree with the commenters who say MS should be afraid of this - Google has taken its sweet time maturing Android into a desktop-supporting experience, but it's close, and "Android PCs" are already in the pipeline to take advantage of it. Any familiarization for the "unwashed masses" with what it feels like to simply run Android as your laptop/desktop OS has to be viewed by MS as, well, "crossing the streams" bad.
Nothing the judges said indicates that they may side with Oracle on the overall issue (there was back and forth, and teasers in both directions on that). The one clear indication given was that the judges lean toward saying that if they overturn Alsup on APIs being copyrightable, they agreed with Oracle that there's not a need for another jury trial.
Of course, if you go out of your way to destroy desktop Windows in pursuit of tablet market share, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
NO executive management with the high-quality management training that is standard within MS would do anything at all like make statements to destroy the market share of their current market-leading product line! Isn't that called the Ratner Effect? The only thing even comparable would be for someone to fall prey to the Osborne Effect, and of course no one with a background in management at Microsoft would ever... oh wait a minute...
Haven't evaluated in over a year, but a stark finding from that timeframe was that making Puppet or Chef handle Windows was a force-fit, at the very least, and pretty crude. Have things advanced? How well do any of these solutions manage the byzantine complexity that is Windows CM?
Puppet, Chef, yadda yadda - the REAL action is in the META tools for automating all the Puppet and Chef etc. systems worldwide. PuppetMaster (pulls all the Puppet's strings), GordonRamsey (yells at all the Chefs out there). Let's not kid ourselves, THAT'S where Skynet is going to emerge.
If their OS work was terrible, then why did the N9 win design awards, and receive overwhelmingly positive reviews? Agreed that Symbian was showing its age (in spite of not being the dog of a seller that MS reputation mgmt drones imply - it still was growing in sales when Elop axe-murdered it), but MeeGo was in-house as well, and took the N9 to a position that Windows Phones have never matched, in terms of critical acclaim.
If you listen to the video, it was clear "Sweetie" was an avatar - the pedophiles involved asked "her" to turn on her webcam. The avatar's near-lifelikeness may have played some role in attracting attention initially (the writeup/video don't say), but there's no indication any of the accessors thought it was really her.
Yes, let's use Wikipedia accesses as our measure - because of course there are no major markets where that's irrelevant. Heck, more Italians visit Wikipedia than Chinese. And let's pretend that all those Samsung S4/S3/Note3 handsets were just shipped, not sold. Yeah, that's dealing honestly with the evidence. Sheesh. Get over it, Android's winning everywhere but the US.
Get ready for the torrent of people who've never dealt with gov't contracting who are just so sure they could do it better. Dunning-Krueger in the house, like usual on/.
They secretly run all of Facebook on Windows firesale Surface devices, but moved user profiles/timelines to a separate volume... and upgraded to Windows 8.1 over the weekend.
Was it pure failure,or today's sick fascination with 'mobile' that would lead a 'modern-replacement-for-X' project to have "multi-monitor issues"?
Neither. One of the things being glossed over or ignored by most of the discussion here is that Mir is working absolutely fine (including with multiple monitors). The issue causing them to "undefault" Mir is that XMir is not as complete and stable as they would like when apps that require X11 try to operate in multi-monitor mode (XMir is a compatibility layer between Mir and X).
In other words, the "weirdness sometimes experience in that area with classic X" in fact IS the problem, or at least the major contributing factor. Their compatibility layer isn't handling all the weirdness edge-cases.
So if you have a single monitor, or don't plan on using any X apps across monitors, feel free to install Mir/XMir and move on. It's being made optional, not going away.
I'm not going to judge you, be kind, everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. My heart goes out to you.
I don't have a phone recommendation for you, but something to think about - does it actually need phone service? Or could you get by with a wifi-only device, with Groove or whatever for phone calls, etc.?
And if so, I think you could hit focalprice.com for a cheapo Android handset, put a custom mod on it, and rig it for remote access, so you could maintain it.
As to custom controls for kids, the only device I've heard of with controls that sound like they might meet your use case is the Kindle. Could you consider a Kindle tablet, with again, wifi VOIP for phoning? I'm not as clear on what the remote-control options would be for such, to allow you to maintain it for the kinder.
With all due respect to your low/. id#, why do you say that? A type 2 hypervisor - are there no good type 2 hv offerings on BSD today? Are there specific production uses for FreeBSD that you think have been forestalled to date, that this opens up? Or is there something about bhyve that sets it apart from the existing options?
Intel heavily supports Wayland, including employing the primary developer. Isn't this move on their part simply saying, we're dogfooding Wayland, and Canonical needs to handle XMir itself? Snark aside, doesn't that seem like a reasonable move on their part?
In most cases like this I turn to St. Hanlon, who wisely advises: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." But in this case, I think Grey's Corollary kicks in: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
Of course, it can be debated if the Nokia epic crash-and-burn is adequately explained by stupidity. Just ask Tomi Ahonen.
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He says so himself (see quote below) - his thinking was, give it a few years for MS to transition to a devices/services company. But something convinced him instead that that transition needs a new CEO right from the start. That's not the kind of conclusion you come to on your own - and clearly inconsistent with several weeks ago, when he gave himself an enhanced role in the related organizational change (with more key direct-reports). He may or may not have been strong-armed - but clearly there was some "persuasion" involved.
From the chair-thrower's mouth: "My original thoughts on timing would have had my retirement happen in the middle of our company’s transformation to a devices and services company. We need a CEO who will be here longer term for this new direction." - Steve Ballmer
Yes, Google benefits. The point is, they aren't worried about if others do as well - get people connected, FTW (and some of that win is Google's, sure). That's abundance thinking. FB, on the other hand, may very well be focusing on things that will specifically put more people on their social network, without driving general capability.(a lower-data format that they will dovetail with their development efforts for a low-bandwidth client).
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TFA itself links to a better FA at: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9244953/Microsoft_to_face_computer_makers_rebellion_at_CES
This original source article includes a discussion of the architecture involved - and the person they interviewed admits he hasn't seen it in action, and has no idea how it works. He suggests it could be one of three approaches - dual boot, an Android API within Windows (somewhat akin to Bluestacks), or a VM running within Windows. I would add a fourth - a hypervisor, permitting both OSes to run concurrently as VMs - though that seems unlikely, as it would require the OEMs to license Windows differently, as I understand it.
Interesting times. I agree with the commenters who say MS should be afraid of this - Google has taken its sweet time maturing Android into a desktop-supporting experience, but it's close, and "Android PCs" are already in the pipeline to take advantage of it. Any familiarization for the "unwashed masses" with what it feels like to simply run Android as your laptop/desktop OS has to be viewed by MS as, well, "crossing the streams" bad.
Sounds like they've built an Android API implementation library for Windows ... i.e., Windows-based Wine for Android.
It'd actually be interesting to see if the tech involved was open and cross-platform, so we could port it to Linux.
Nothing the judges said indicates that they may side with Oracle on the overall issue (there was back and forth, and teasers in both directions on that). The one clear indication given was that the judges lean toward saying that if they overturn Alsup on APIs being copyrightable, they agreed with Oracle that there's not a need for another jury trial.
Of course, if you go out of your way to destroy desktop Windows in pursuit of tablet market share, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
NO executive management with the high-quality management training that is standard within MS would do anything at all like make statements to destroy the market share of their current market-leading product line! Isn't that called the Ratner Effect? The only thing even comparable would be for someone to fall prey to the Osborne Effect, and of course no one with a background in management at Microsoft would ever ... oh wait a minute ...
Haven't evaluated in over a year, but a stark finding from that timeframe was that making Puppet or Chef handle Windows was a force-fit, at the very least, and pretty crude. Have things advanced? How well do any of these solutions manage the byzantine complexity that is Windows CM?
Puppet, Chef, yadda yadda - the REAL action is in the META tools for automating all the Puppet and Chef etc. systems worldwide. PuppetMaster (pulls all the Puppet's strings), GordonRamsey (yells at all the Chefs out there). Let's not kid ourselves, THAT'S where Skynet is going to emerge.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
However, remember that any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
If their OS work was terrible, then why did the N9 win design awards, and receive overwhelmingly positive reviews? Agreed that Symbian was showing its age (in spite of not being the dog of a seller that MS reputation mgmt drones imply - it still was growing in sales when Elop axe-murdered it), but MeeGo was in-house as well, and took the N9 to a position that Windows Phones have never matched, in terms of critical acclaim.
If you listen to the video, it was clear "Sweetie" was an avatar - the pedophiles involved asked "her" to turn on her webcam. The avatar's near-lifelikeness may have played some role in attracting attention initially (the writeup/video don't say), but there's no indication any of the accessors thought it was really her.
Yes, let's use Wikipedia accesses as our measure - because of course there are no major markets where that's irrelevant. Heck, more Italians visit Wikipedia than Chinese. And let's pretend that all those Samsung S4/S3/Note3 handsets were just shipped, not sold. Yeah, that's dealing honestly with the evidence. Sheesh. Get over it, Android's winning everywhere but the US.
... if the temperature briefly rises too quickly, it may be necessary to let the water cool before resuming the gradual increase in temperature.
Oh, snap!
Get ready for the torrent of people who've never dealt with gov't contracting who are just so sure they could do it better. Dunning-Krueger in the house, like usual on /.
They secretly run all of Facebook on Windows firesale Surface devices, but moved user profiles/timelines to a separate volume ... and upgraded to Windows 8.1 over the weekend.
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Coincidence that this happens on the same day Ed Bott blogs about this exact issue with Win8.1? I don't think so
Java must be dying - when's the last time you saw an applet? Let's ignore that it's hugely popular on servers, for enterprise development.
Was it pure failure,or today's sick fascination with 'mobile' that would lead a 'modern-replacement-for-X' project to have "multi-monitor issues"?
Neither. One of the things being glossed over or ignored by most of the discussion here is that Mir is working absolutely fine (including with multiple monitors). The issue causing them to "undefault" Mir is that XMir is not as complete and stable as they would like when apps that require X11 try to operate in multi-monitor mode (XMir is a compatibility layer between Mir and X).
In other words, the "weirdness sometimes experience in that area with classic X" in fact IS the problem, or at least the major contributing factor. Their compatibility layer isn't handling all the weirdness edge-cases.
So if you have a single monitor, or don't plan on using any X apps across monitors, feel free to install Mir/XMir and move on. It's being made optional, not going away.
I'm not going to judge you, be kind, everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. My heart goes out to you.
I don't have a phone recommendation for you, but something to think about - does it actually need phone service? Or could you get by with a wifi-only device, with Groove or whatever for phone calls, etc.?
And if so, I think you could hit focalprice.com for a cheapo Android handset, put a custom mod on it, and rig it for remote access, so you could maintain it.
As to custom controls for kids, the only device I've heard of with controls that sound like they might meet your use case is the Kindle. Could you consider a Kindle tablet, with again, wifi VOIP for phoning? I'm not as clear on what the remote-control options would be for such, to allow you to maintain it for the kinder.
Good luck!
I meant "moat", obviously - don't know why the title got cutoff.
... doesn't mean you don't rebuild it!! http://youtu.be/g3YiPC91QUk?t=23s
With all due respect to your low /. id#, why do you say that? A type 2 hypervisor - are there no good type 2 hv offerings on BSD today? Are there specific production uses for FreeBSD that you think have been forestalled to date, that this opens up? Or is there something about bhyve that sets it apart from the existing options?
Intel heavily supports Wayland, including employing the primary developer. Isn't this move on their part simply saying, we're dogfooding Wayland, and Canonical needs to handle XMir itself? Snark aside, doesn't that seem like a reasonable move on their part?
NSA as Batman, wanting to use the cellphone technology to locate the Joker. Lucius Fox as the engineers who created the internet.
Bruce Schneier will no doubt be played by Morgan Freeman in the inevitable movie version of this whole saga.
In most cases like this I turn to St. Hanlon, who wisely advises: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." But in this case, I think Grey's Corollary kicks in: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
Of course, it can be debated if the Nokia epic crash-and-burn is adequately explained by stupidity. Just ask Tomi Ahonen.
He says so himself (see quote below) - his thinking was, give it a few years for MS to transition to a devices/services company. But something convinced him instead that that transition needs a new CEO right from the start. That's not the kind of conclusion you come to on your own - and clearly inconsistent with several weeks ago, when he gave himself an enhanced role in the related organizational change (with more key direct-reports). He may or may not have been strong-armed - but clearly there was some "persuasion" involved.
From the chair-thrower's mouth: "My original thoughts on timing would have had my retirement happen in the middle of our company’s transformation to a devices and services company. We need a CEO who will be here longer term for this new direction." - Steve Ballmer
Yes, Google benefits. The point is, they aren't worried about if others do as well - get people connected, FTW (and some of that win is Google's, sure). That's abundance thinking. FB, on the other hand, may very well be focusing on things that will specifically put more people on their social network, without driving general capability.(a lower-data format that they will dovetail with their development efforts for a low-bandwidth client).