On Friday, 8 בJune 2012 20:07:20 Gerry Reno wrote: > On 06/08/2012 01:04 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > That is only assuming that Windows on ARM is successful, of which so far > > there's been precious little indication. > > There is a tidal wave of these PC ARM devices coming: > > http://www.itworld.com/hardware/240039/qualcomm-targets-pcs-takes-aim- intels-ultrabooks Hmmm... we've seen this "Windows-on-non-x86" movie twice before: - Remember Alpha's? Digital (RIP) really thought MS would give them the keys to the kingdom. There was a released version. It was good enough to frighten Intel at the time (which was probably the reason MS did it). Linux sold manyfolds more Alpha's than Windows. - Ahhh, and of course MS found new suckers who bought the same used story few years later (yes, I'm talking about Windows/PPC that lived a very short life). So far, MS failed misserably in the cellular space so there's a good chance their exclusionary move on ARM will only help convince vendors that shipping Androids (and by extension other Linuces) is safer bet. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 oron@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron linux/reboot.h: #define LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1 0xfee1dead -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
