I just wish Google could get my voice right when it forges all those phone calls I never made yet ..... for free.

Now for today's breaking headline --- Microsoft feels another Chromebook penetration beginning to happen

   sounds of a faint "Aieeee !!!" and some agonized thrashing comes drifting on the breeze from over at the knee deep piranha stream where MS has been hanging out for a while now.

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20150327VL201.html

Digitimes Research: Microsoft to push 2 inexpensive notebooks in mid-2015 to counter Chromebook penetration

Sad thing is that the last time MS tried to push back with three $179  inexpensive Bingbooks to counter what they felt were DOZENS AND DOZENS of large throbbing Chromebook penetrations, 'ol MS wound up doing the counter-penetrating thing to themselves instead of to Google (removed a part of their own low end market share and plugged up their own Bing works all at the same time).

In any case MS cannot do anything effective this time until Win10 is out because they NEED the "hide part of the fat porky OS up in the cloud" tricks that came out of the last debacle's attempts to make their $179 chromekillers work right, much less to get any theoretical new $149 chromekillers to work right.

     .... so tell me, is it Bingworks or Bungworks when MS does all this aggressive self-penetrating pushing stuff to themselves
with two of them narsty sharp cornered little chromekiller laptops both at the same time no less ???

ouch !    


Does Microsoft realize they could do a Shuttleworth style docked phone running the whole show thing right now using these same "hide part of the fat porky OS up in the cloud" tricks ???    Intel has the no-cord monitor connection thing down pat now too, so you could leave the phone in your pocket or purse and still run your desktop stuff just dandy.  

Who will be the first to do this?

    ....  that little "everything running off the phone" hand held unit would hurt a whole lot less going in, now wouldn't it?

   Butt, it could be considered as the "suppository of DEATH" for the desktop world, though, as it will signal the end of full sized desktop units forever.    
(and a fatal blending of mobile computing into mainline computing)

http://wccftech.com/amd-licensing-graphics-radeon-mediatek/

AMD Radeon Graphics Going Into Mobile Mediatek SOCs     I will flat out buy one of these in a year or so, I betcha .....

"It’s worthy of note that both companies are part of the Heterogeneous System Architecture / HSA foundation.  So they’ve worked together before and what they’re working together on will undoubtedly be an HSA enabled graphics solution for mobile SOCs. The HSA distinction is very important here. Especially since we’re talking about ultra low power mobile SOCs, where fractions of a watt can make a considerable difference.

AMD And Mediatek Collaborating On New SOC Graphics Solution

HSA is crucial because it opens a plethora of power saving avenues, after all HSA was put in place to significantly improve both performance and efficiency. It does so by using the graphics and CPU resources opportunistically and simultaneously so that each processor can can handle the workload that suits it best. This simple concept can lead to extraordinary leaps in performance and efficiency.  I’ve covered heterogeneous computing in detail in a previous editorial in which I outlined the single direction that Intel, AMD and Nvidia are all heading towards.

HSA is also important because it’s a competitive advantage that other players in the field have yet to catch up on. AMD’s GCN ‘Graphics Core Next’ is currently the only graphics architecture in the industry which is fully HSA 1.0 compliant. Something Qualcomm has yet to achieve and Nvidia can’t explore because it isn’t a member of the HSA foundation.

AMD’s not new to the ultra-low power space. After all Qualcomm’s extremely successful Adreno line of graphics solutions is based on the AMD design that they acquired from the company back in 2008.  AMD has also already introduced GCN powered Mullin SOCs with SDPs going down to as low as 2.8W, so it’s a space they’ve tackled before. The company also revealed that it has managed achieve the biggest power efficiency leap ever for mainstream APUs with Carrizo. What’s more interesting is that they’ve accomplished that through clever design and a set of new power efficiency features without the help of a new manufacturing process.

This recent development and collaboration with Mediatek bodes well for the potential power efficiency leap we may see with AMD’s future graphics offerings. because what really drove Nvidia’s significant efficiency strides in recent years was its need to compete in the mobile space. So the ultra low power mobile segment will undoubtedly serve as a similar role as a power efficiency catalyst for AMD."

OK, Intel got their hands on a point-in-time snapshot of AMD's graphics IP as part of a legal settlement last year and that single shot of graphics data has been the real largest part of Intel's recent betterment of their Cherry Trail and Skylake product lines.   It certainly hasn't been the self throttling Intel CPU cores ......  

So, Mediatek went directly to the well and found a willing partner in AMD -- AMD is searching for a pathway into the future and partnering with Mediatek is a good way for them to do that.   The two are similar sized companies who both hate Intel (for various good reasons) both of which like ARM and both of whom belong to the same HSA orgs and support the same other open standards groups as well.

Intel is nobody's partner -- they have proven that time after time after time as they use up and drop anybody that tries to partner with them, often suing them at the end into sharing the IP that Intel really wanted in the first place.    Ask Rockchip, Altera, or AMD themselves -- they can tell you all about it.

What? did google forget to buy enough tickets to the policemans ball?

Google needs to figure out how much it would cost them to move their equipment out of the EU and have a number in mind when the EU finally swags that big arsed fine at them.

Or else do what they did in China, already be gone by the time the EU finishes their "deliberations".

Notice any similarities between the way the EU acts and the way China sometimes acts ???

China always balances the best interest of Chinese business and the Chinese people -- I think the EU has lost track of what really matters in their current liberal thinking frenzy.

The biggest most frequent of the EU complainers by far is Microsoft, which has its own competing search engine, Bing (which they just scrapped, BTW).   Microsoft is just rehashing the same complaints that FAILED miserably when they brought them in the USA last year -- rehashing them because the EU is more liberal in interpreting their own laws (and EU regulators are more open to local influence, apparently).

In this case it looks like there is some manipulation being done by some local EU business concerns actively being led by MICROSOFT -- in a tit for tat for Google's Chromebooks nibbling away at their ankles most likely.

Microsoft wants to disrupt the Chromebook wave building in Europe, using any method they can come up with,  fair or foul.

The amount of the fine being bantered about is 6 billion Euros  (6.4 billion dollars) ....

The amount of search listing change needed to "not hurt the little guys" would require listing in the top 10 items that normally according to relevance or popularity would not even make page #2 on the existing Google system.

This is all fairly much a lot of hot air rhetoric and BS at this stage, a brand new woman is making a splash as the head of a EU function by "taking on Google".    She is intentionally going counter to documented settlements already agreed to in writing by her predecessor as formal findings.    Western Governments do not act this way, not normally.   Dictatorships and similar forms of government act by fiat, not representative forms of government regulated by procedures such as the EU.

Google needs to hire some really good EU lawyers, and have a go at getting some compensation for the false accusations leveled at them so far.

Google also needs to hire some skilled EU publicists to make sure everyone knows very clearly that MS is behind all this shite.   They should commission a movie on the subject showing the personal power seeking and greed that is behind the EU's function heads active manipulations of free businesses that are located in other countries.

Then, if Google chooses to exit some of the EU states they need to make sure the EU members all understand exactly what this grandstanding by this Danish woman is going to cost them.   Yes, Google is by 90+ percent the most favored search engine used by EU people in general, but losing Google from your country is SO SO MUCH MORE than just losing a search engine.

Sergi & Brin have proven that they can make hard choices not to buckle under to governmental pressures, they have done it repeatedly with the USA and with China.   They did choose to completely pull out of China as it became obvious the Chinese were never going to go along with the free dispersal of data and Google wasn't going to be their censor for them.   (Baidu is and does, btw)

It is interesting that Microsoft remained in China the whole time and MS plays ball with the Chinese government against the freedoms of the Chinese people (and other peoples around the world).   MS actually benefited from Google leaving China -- perhaps MS is trying for a repeat of that activity?

MS cannot compete against Google right now in the free world marketplace, not effectively.   Not in search, not in data nor other Google key competencies.   MS struggles just to compete in OS systems right now, which is THEIR key competency supposedly ....

But if MS can arrange for the EU to screw Google up pretty good and take Google's  mind off of what they were doing so very well in the last year or so then that is to MS's advantage.  

Remember, Google was kicking MS's butt and creating a new way of doing computing over the net instead of locally loading everything.   By building a better system Google was quietly putting MS out of business within the next 10 years or so.   MS remembers the dirty tricks used by Bill Gates, so you can expect some of the same stuff from the new MS as well.

I once said MS --- PLEASE go piss Google off again ---   Google does 300% more 200% quicker when they stop being Switzerland and actually get pissed off some at something.

Let's see what transpires now .....   I think the boys are going to go after each other's rice bowls a bit more directly now.

http://liliputing.com/2015/04/cyanogen-microsoft-partnership-means-more-bing-...

Cyanogen, Microsoft partnership means more Bing on Cyanogen OS phones

Microsoft  has been seeking mobile partners for its services for some time now.   Cyanogen has chosen to be one of the first to take the candy from the bad man's hands.  

According to the announcement, Microsoft’s Bing services, Skype communication software, OneDrive cloud storage service, OneNote, Outlook, and Office software will be integrated with Cyanogen OS.

Now that MS has Google tied up with the EU case MS hopes Google will not enforce their normal Android rules, but by starting out with the renegade Cyanogen it makes a good test bed case since it obviously involves no large stakes or big players.

Note that some MS services were included "in addition" on the Samsung's Galaxy S6, but Verizon and AT&T both chose to remove the items from the phones they resell in their stores since they offer their own tuned android services and wanted their customers to use their own tuned android systems.   Google didn't do this, their big telecoms did.  

Watch out boys, the EU is watching you .....

Plus, rumor has it that MS plans to buy Cyanogen quietly on the sly and use it as "their phone OS" -- fun huh?   Cyanogen is acting bought already -- but based off of Nokia's experience I do not suspect the little guys are looking forward to the bumpy MS ride for very much.

http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21648606-google

Nothing to stand on

This is an absolutely fascinating, must understand topic, because in this action the new EU Competition Commissioner tore up all the previous documented negotiated agreements on this issue and flat stated publically she wants to levy a maximum fine of 6.6 billion dollars even before even hearing the first response back from Google.  

This is not the rule of law, it is fiat.   Does the EU operate by fiat now?   If so, this change has drastic and large implications to all treaties and agreements now existing.



The implications of what the EU has just allowed this commissioner to do are staggering -- this appointed head of an EU Commission has just stated by inference that she has the self-appointed power to ABROGATE treaties and agreements with major allied states and break the EU's own laws while doing it.

Look at the graphic carefully and understand where the EU sits right now in the eyes of American business concerns and politically, with the US Administration and with Congress.

No one would blame Google a bit if they moved their foot off the plank .....

And the EU needs to carefully investigate the "local influence maneuvering" that got the woman off into this state -- and carefully see how many MS dollars were actually moved about to accomplish this task behind the scenes.   The EU should take action to make sure they cannot be used as a patsy by an American corporation acting under the cover of "local interests" while systematically attacking its American rival corporations.

This is high drama, or high tragedy if you prefer -- but such type stuff took place shortly before WWII when Germany went Nazi ballistic.  

Furor and rhetoric with lots of behind the scenes maneuvering  -- and power hungry people seeking personal power and influence by rabble rousing the crowds then actually running amok naming and executing scapegoats once they got some real power, yeah, that sounds familiar doesn't it ??    

Does the EU even have a domestic search engine anywhere of its very own to plug in if Google leaves?

      Does the EU have a methodology to preview potential Commissioners for "crazy liberalitis" and other disqualifying mental illnesses ???