I bet they've been waiting to do this for quite a while. Why? Because this is exactly what Microsoft did to them with Surface, two years ago. HP clearly hasn't forgiven Microsoft for that stunt, and since then it has only tried to strengthen the relationship with Google and put more ChromeOS/Android devices on the market.
After Announcing Plans To Destroy Microsoft Windows, HP CEO Pulls A Gutsy Move
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#12They make good hardware, usually. As for software? We shall see. I think they'll forgive us if we say we've heard this all before.
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#13"operating system research which we think has been dormant or stagnant for decades"
Is as much of a dig on unix/linux as windows, is it not?
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#14Wait, the same HP that tossed aside PalmOS? The same HP that gave us HP-UX? Wait stop, I am laughing too much, the coffee shot out of my nose. Glad to see you pushing the memristor, but really, have any of the board actually, like, you know, used an HP laptop recently? Mine waa awesome as a backup oven, the overheating at last useful, but otherwise?
> Wait, the same HP that tossed aside PalmOS?
No. That was Leo Apotheker, the Idiot.
> The same HP that gave us HP-UX?
You may not like HP-UX, but it does some of the neatest tricks in workload management I've ever seen.
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#15What, its not going to run PalmOS?
I think someone should remind Meg that 70% of Enterprises run their infrastructure on Windows.
Also, their laptops are terrible. Can they fix the stuff they already have?
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#16"operating system research which we think has been dormant or stagnant for decades" Is as much of a dig on unix/linux as windows, is it not?
It's a sad fact that the two dominant OSs these days are a copy of Unix and the bastard child of VMS.
I'd love to see some fresh approaches to this old problem.
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#17"operating system research which we think has been dormant or stagnant for decades" Is as much of a dig on unix/linux as windows, is it not?
And aapl and ibm.
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#18I don't think this is really a plan to destroy Windows. Sounds more like they're just working on the open source OSs because it's easier to do while the Machine is still largely theoretical.
If it does ever come to market, I'm sure they'll end up working with Microsoft in some form to create something together. But that requires all sorts of legal business agreements, which you can completely avoid in the early stages by working on own-brand or open-source systems.
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#19I bet they've been waiting to do this for quite a while. Why? Because this is exactly what Microsoft did to them with Surface, two years ago. HP clearly hasn't forgiven Microsoft for that stunt, and since then it has only tried to strengthen the relationship with Google and put more ChromeOS/Android devices on the market.
Well, if you go further down the memory lane you'll see that it was HP that fired the first shot.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/03/webos-...
Look at Lenovo which is actually innovating instead of resting on its laurels like HP and churning out the same cookie cutter crap year after year and expecting profit to stay up. The Surface is a red herring, actual innovation is still rewarded, for example see the Lenovo Yoga line of laptops.
http://www.cnet.com/news/lenovo-earnings-soar-on-solid-pc-sm...
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#20If HP can pull this off, it will be as big a wave as the PC, the Web, and the Mobile ones, if not bigger.