nice for geeks and people who like to mess with people like SSWatchdog ex member,etc.otherwise right up there with watching grass grow.

Here's your big news for all you windows people .....

Microsoft will support windows on ARM chips with Windows 8

How well this will work out with windows OS itself currently exceeding the available total memory space of the devices we are talking about by a factor of 3-4 times,  I dunno.

So, Windows 8 will have to go on a significant diet, or what they said was prone to mis-interpretation (yours, of course).

My guess is that WinCE gets a sort of Win8 looking interface and nothing else much changes for windows world.

By the time this happens, folks will have years & years of experience on Android and will have a nice long yardstick to compare any future real Windows offering to.

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Scary stuff for Microsoft and Intel, 85% of the new innovative products announced at CES did not involve their chips or operating systems.  

Dum Dum de Dum (death march time).

AMD is interesting, all their new stuff is low power faster multi-core very small chips complete with ATI based video right on the small chip die.  All of it will run Windows or ARM or Google OS or Linux or whatever.  AMD is squaring up to take over the notebook and low end laptop space from Intel as Intel isn't offering a good graphics solution for the bottom end yet (requires an INVIDA separate chip to get similar results).  

And INVIDA is competing against AMD in this space with an ARM chip & video combo called TEGRA2.   AMD and TEGRA2 are the only two horses in this low end race right at this minute, with AMD being the only one that even can run Windows at all.  Intel is still working on something, though .....

Intel is gonna have to scramble hard to keep its place as a major player, and Microsoft is going to become totally business base dependent (legacy hardware) supplier if they don't shake their butts and MOVE off their little holy throne some.   They are fast on the way to being the new IBM of the 2010's if they don't MOVE and move fast.

What is scary is all the emerging large players, the Indian, Taiwanese and Chinese chip makers and board makers and laptop makers are not spending any development time on what we know as a full sized laptop or set top box any more.   It is all spent on ARM and AMD devices that are lighter, run longer on a battery charge and cost less to make.  Laptops and tablets and that's it folks .... little thin things that run a long time on a battery charge.

If Windows 8 isn't on the same OS footprint size as XP or Linux and run fast as the dickens on this new light hardware then it is likely all over for Microsoft.  They can't withstand another total OS fumble in this very sweeping large scale changing environment.

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Don't throw away any old laptops or hardware from the past 2 generations -- what is old is likely gonna become new again when the new "smaller footprint" operating systems all shake themselves out good.   And an OS change may make your obsolete XP box perfectly functional again ....

I hate change....
I'm just getting used to XP... ...

Serowbot wrote on 01/06/11 at 09:37:44:




I hate change.


Well, the jump from Bush to the Bamster didnt bother you any then. Cuz nothing that matters changed.

Serowbot wrote on 01/06/11 at 09:37:44:

I kinda agree, I like my XP.  Of course I thought I liked my previous Windows '98, until I got used to the XP.  Frankly, as long as it lets me check the forums and bike sites, the occasional stupid YouTube video, I really don't need anything too fancy.

T-Mack says


companies are too greedy to understand that if they cut the profits a bit, they could sell more and make the same yearly income.



If I cut the price of my burgers & manage to make the same profit every year, because I sold more, then heeeers what happens.


I buy & process more materials. I use more energy. Every step of the production process is repeated more times, using the equipment.

All that activity, for the same number of dollars in profit isnt generally considered a wise business decision, IMO, based on the prevailing attitudes I see. It would have a few positive side effects, tho. I mite need to run the place 24 hours, increasing my number of employees, adding jobs to the community. Id be buying more raw materials, so, the vendors would make more, maybe someone would even have to hire someone to keep up with the increased sales,, &, If I can manage to wear my production equipment out at the same time it becomes obsolete & the depreciation has eaten the value , I can replace equipment with a more advanced model & run more efficiently & make improvements on my chip.

Might BE a good idea.. I think its worth more study.

It's generally the cost of r&d plus some that has to be recovered
quickly - otherwise if the bottom falls out of the price, or a better idea
shows up - there won't be a next round of r&d.