Microsoft is bringing Windows 10, with desktop app support, to ARM chipsets
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Re: Microsoft is bringing Windows 10, with desktop app support, to ARM chipsets
#2I wish them the best of luck. This could be big if it works well.
Re: Microsoft is bringing Windows 10, with desktop app support, to ARM chipsets
#3Although for my use cases a phone will most likely never be fast enough I can see this working for a large majority of end users.
As someone in my office just said: "This is like saying 'of course shoes need laces'".
Re: Microsoft is bringing Windows 10, with desktop app support, to ARM chipsets
#4As soon as I saw Ubuntu Edge back in 2013, I have been dreaming of the day something like Continuum is a reality and not just for Windows. For Linux and MacOS as well.
Hopefully, it's not to far off now.
Re: Microsoft is bringing Windows 10, with desktop app support, to ARM chipsets
#5Wow. It just clicked:
We could have a future where your personal computer fits easily in your pocket, you can carry it everywhere you go, and you just plug it into whatever monitor & keyboard & mouse you happen to be near by, whether it's in a coffee shop, at work, at home, on an aeroplane, anywhere!
It's almost kind of the return of the mainframe & terminal. Your OS & apps would be installed on your device, and your data would primarily be on your device but also backed up in the cloud.
This is one of the first computer-based innovations I'm actually excited about in like 15 years. Count me hopeful.
Re: Microsoft is bringing Windows 10, with desktop app support, to ARM chipsets
#6Wow. It just clicked: We could have a future where your personal computer fits easily in your pocket, you can carry it everywhere you go, and you just plug it into whatever monitor & keyboard & mouse you happen to be near by, whether it's in a coffee shop, at work, at home, on an aeroplane, anywhere! It's almost kind of the return of the mainframe & terminal. Your OS & apps would be installed on your device, and your…
Just think of the security nightmare of plugging your computer into hardware on a data bus like USB. And that is not even taking into consideration that using a publicly available screen and keyboard which on their own can easily be used for logging screen and key data.
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Re: Microsoft is bringing Windows 10, with desktop app support, to ARM chipsets
#8Wow. It just clicked: We could have a future where your personal computer fits easily in your pocket, you can carry it everywhere you go, and you just plug it into whatever monitor & keyboard & mouse you happen to be near by, whether it's in a coffee shop, at work, at home, on an aeroplane, anywhere! It's almost kind of the return of the mainframe & terminal. Your OS & apps would be installed on your device, and your…
It's almost kind of the return of the mainframe & terminal.
Man, I hate to be Mr. Pedantic here, but with mainframes/terminals all of the processing and data storage took place on a machine you couldn't see and (probably) didn't control. Which is the exact opposite of having the machine in your pocket.
When really what we're asking for is better OS and device support for peripherals. If an iPad had mouse support, I'd have little need for a MBP save running Xcode.
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#9This is the future but even better if it were without wires...
Re: Microsoft is bringing Windows 10, with desktop app support, to ARM chipsets
#10Wow. It just clicked: We could have a future where your personal computer fits easily in your pocket, you can carry it everywhere you go, and you just plug it into whatever monitor & keyboard & mouse you happen to be near by, whether it's in a coffee shop, at work, at home, on an aeroplane, anywhere! It's almost kind of the return of the mainframe & terminal. Your OS & apps would be installed on your device, and your…
Just think of the security nightmare of plugging your computer into hardware on a data bus like USB. And that is not even taking into consideration that using a publicly available screen and keyboard which on their own can easily be used for logging screen and key data.
it could be wireless display and wireless keyboard, mouse