Luke, you are my son ..... join me in the Dark side of the Force and we can rule the universe together.

  NO !!!!   Auuugh !!!!



http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/3/5267360/intel-dual-os-pc-plus-android-window...

Intel plans a CES coup: Android and Windows in the same computer

Well, you gotta read the whole article, it is a first glimpse of what is going to be coming out of the Intel booth at CES.   Yup, the display booths are up now and presenter people are practicing their spiels trying to get their displays all sinc'd up, etc.   So the reporters walking around are getting their first glimpses at the major announcements that will be repeated endlessly at the booths over the next week.

I find it interesting that Intel is trying to shotgun marry MS to Google in an attempt to get a really satisfying new OS out of the pair of them .....

Mebbe this will Tazer Google's ass into actually moving off their dime on Chrome/Android now.   MS, don't bother with the Tazer, them cardiac paddles don't even make MS twitch any more .....  

MS ain't got no head and until they sew on a new one they ain't going anywhere or doing nothing, period.

Please note, this idea does not have any level of approval by Google or by MS.    MS sales associates have been going around to the "supporting vendors" encouraging them not to participate (screams from the twisted arms are echoing from behind the facades on the show floor).


   ohhhh my goodness, read the comments down below the article --- they are a hoot plus 2 at least.  

The young folks understand what the real problem is -- Windows 8 sux bad enough to kill off the PC industry all by itself.

PLEASE NOTE THAT MICROSOFT IS UNDER A CLASS ACTION SUIT AT THIS TIME FROM THEIR OWN STOCKHOLDERS FOR WITHHOLDING CRITICAL FISCAL INFORMATION FROM THEIR STOCKHOLDERS LEADING TO STOCKHOLDERS SUFFERING SIGNIFICANT FINANCIAL REVERSALS IN 2013.


Well,,, thats something that others have certainly gotten away with,,We saw people get slaughtered in '08 when stuff they bought dropped hard, & then it came out that the very people selling them those "Investment instruments" were shorting them AS They were Touting them as a great buy. Jail for the banksters? Nooo,, bailouts.. bonuses, trips, junkets, fancy hotels & high class hookers to make sure the best of the best stay,, cant have these losers leave, be a shame having to try to replace such wonderful people..

Panasonic and Firefox have pared up to put Firefox browser access on Panasonic televisions being sold worldwide.

Firefox is showing Firefox tablets, televisions and Firefox all-in-ones (yup, that's a desktop).   Most of these are aimed at Spain and the South American countries colonized by Spain back in the day -- Firefox is fairly big stuff down below the equator.

WebOS is doing the same thing on LG televisions, providing browser access for a large screen TV.

Android all-in-ones, android computer monitors, small 21" & 23" TV's that swing a built in android PC as part of the package .....  I count like 6 different announcements at the CES show itself and another 4 that predate it by a few weeks.

There is a whole WAD of new Chrome Laptops being announced, all costing between $225 and $275.   Some have decent screen sizes, memory and HD space.

Microsoft doesn't even have a booth at CES 2014.    Ballmer isn't present at all, not even walking around looking at the show.    MS sales associates are walking around and having small meetings in the meeting rooms with certain select customers to answer their questions in private.

Intel did the keynote address on day one and had nothing much to say (MS and Google had told them to forget about their dual OS thing).   No new wave of vaporwear chipsets, what you got is what you got for next year.

Attendees are saying it is mainly a refrigerator/washing machine and big flat screen television show.   Nothing much is really new, really.

CES 2014 s sorta dull, in other words .....  

None of the old school Silicone Valley or Washington State  boys have all that much to contribute any more.    I find this sad, but not unexpected.

The real show for 2014 will be the summer show in Taipei.




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Remember I said Ubuntu would be there at the show pitching at full governmental level uses?

Here is their "test case" that they are using to support their claims -- all of the French Police computer systems now are running Ubuntu, all 37,000 of them.    They calculate a hard factual 40% year on year savings for cost of operating their computer systems on Ubuntu rather than MS/Novell/etc.

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/11-apresentacao-stephanedumond.p
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you may need to type this into your browser as it is too long for some browsers to auto click

Governments are being driven to consider moves like this due to inherent and severe security issues that have been seen from MS lately.   The fact they can continue to use their existing hardware for another 10 years or so is just pouring gravy on these calculations .....

Face it, you need 3rd party softwares to make MS functional and secure enough to use, and that only adds to the cost and complexity of maintaining a MS/Novell/etc. system wide installation.

Ubuntu is being asked for 10 year lock in and support on their enterprise softwares (something Red Hat has been doing for years and years).

Red Hat is at the show too ....  smiling and greeting folks who are shopping new secure government/enterprise level solutions.

Red Hat needs no examples, they have been doing it world-wide for well over a decade now.

REMEMBER,   AMD and INTEL are both ARM liscensees .....   and Android is technically open source software.


http://liliputing.com/2014/01/intel-amd-pushing-windows-android-dual-os-strat...

So, AMD and INTEL apparently both feel it is OK to mash it all in together into an integrated experience with MS Windows.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/6/5282502/intel-confirms-dual-os-computers-tha...

Note that both AMD and INTEL can sneak in an ARM core or two inside their existing processor designs, it is within the current ARM license parameters.



Now, having announced this mis-mash thing the AMD/INTEL alliance needs to convince Google and Microsoft to agree to play along with it willingly.

Microsoft has no real direction at the moment, so their headless nondirectedness might just allow them to play along with the idea for a while.   Especially if it could allow them to claim some co-ownership and then sue a bunch of people later on, or better yet shut it all down with numerous lawsuits.

Google wants "to do no evil" but actually jumping into bed with Darth Vader might just be a little too much for them to stomach, especially since they KNOW what sort of reception the idea will get from Google's open source grassroots folks.

It will be interesting to see this play out .....    sounds a bit more like a sitcom script than a business plan right now.





Do you remember the EC's UN based attempt to "unify open source word processing formats" world-wide about 8 years ago?    Being all fair about it, every UN nation got an equal voice in the process and Microsoft then went and bribed all the smaller African and Island nation's various delegates to vote their way?

Yep, crawl into bed with ol' Darth Vader and he'll slip you the greasy tentacle he will.    Then he'll sue you for squalling so durn loudly when the probing fun gets started.

Love the posts .. thanks.

hahaha


you and I are OLD... its a differnt era.. Computer Shopper .. I remember buying those all the time ... they were the size of a phone book.  I bought my parts for my first three homebuilt PC's from those pages...

I still go out to CNET site for downloads, and Tucows.

Oldfeller--FSO wrote on 01/09/14 at 08:42:05:


LOL, yup we are old... I have a box full of 3.5 and a few 5 inch floppies, got the full 12 disk version of windows 3.1, got 5 disk set of dos 6 and a few fun programs for hacking old dos dial-ups. And of course a ton of games... heck I even have a 14 disk set of auto cad 5 or 6. Got Rott, Doom and a couple other 1st time online games.
My old comp 3.5 disc drive went tits up so I bought an external one for 12 bucks online...dang motor in it is so week it won't spin up a few disc's because they are kinda old and sticky, got to figure how to loosen them up to get them to spin easier without ruining what is on them