This is a Very Big Deal. It's in a testing phase, so we're getting in on the ground floor here...
It is all the curiouser and curiouser (said Alice) that there hasn't been a spate of followup articles. Not sure about why that might be (the other articles I've seen just reference this one). Maybe everybody is so excited about Hillary announcing that they forgot that other stuff happens in the world besides her.
As far as we can tell from the article, the Windows software comes as a "firmware update" -- that is, downloadable software that gets flashed into the operating system ROMs of the Android device, turning it from Android to Windows. Replacing its brain completely, one end to the other.
Anyway, this is a VBD because (among other reasons) it gives Windows 10 an angle towards hardware exposure and marketshare that nobody had thought about. Potentially very exciting, if it proves viable.
Much thanks to FReeper tacticalogic for the heads up about this article.
1 posted on
04/10/2015 6:24:47 PM PDT by
dayglored
To: dayglored; Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; Alas Babylon!; amigatec; ...
Windows 10 on Android Phones and Devices ... PING!
2 posted on
04/10/2015 6:25:49 PM PDT by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: dayglored
To: dayglored
I remember when IBM made OS/2 run on Windows.
4 posted on
04/10/2015 6:31:26 PM PDT by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: dayglored
the Windows software comes as a "firmware update" -- that is, downloadable software that gets flashed into the operating system ROMs of the Android device, turning it from Android to Windows. Replacing its brain completely, one end to the other. Perhaps that's a neat demo of skills, but why would anyone outside of the programmers' community want to replace Android with Windows on a phone?
5 posted on
04/10/2015 6:32:09 PM PDT by
Greysard
To: dayglored
So why would anyone want to pay double royalties for basically the same functionality?
8 posted on
04/10/2015 6:36:24 PM PDT by
Red in Blue PA
(war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
To: dayglored
Very few Windows tablets have internal GPS while all Android tablets seem to have it. I wonder why that is. Does Windows even support it without a vendor add-on?
To: dayglored
omg don’t they realize the popularity of Android systems is that they DON’T work like Windows???
18 posted on
04/10/2015 7:01:07 PM PDT by
Redbob
(W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
To: dayglored
Also the Raspberry Pi B will get a version of Win10
19 posted on
04/10/2015 7:06:12 PM PDT by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: dayglored
30 posted on
04/10/2015 8:05:51 PM PDT by
Scrambler Bob
(an icon of resistance within the oppressed patriots, who represent resilience in the face of SSV)
To: dayglored
I’m very interested in this concept, and hope MS can regain is mojo. Better to have more creative movers in the market.
36 posted on
04/10/2015 9:52:15 PM PDT by
catbertz
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