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Is this a good move for Microsoft? It feels like what IBM tried with OS/2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2#Windows_3.x_compatibility IBM created a Windows compatibility layer. However, that meant that developers saw that they could write their programs once for Windows and OS/2 users would be able to use the programs. The reverse wouldn't be true. So there was little incentive to create native apps for OS/2 compar…
Is this a good move for Microsoft? It feels like what IBM tried with OS/2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2#Windows_3.x_compatibility IBM created a Windows compatibility layer. However, that meant that developers saw that they could write their programs once for Windows and OS/2 users would be able to use the programs. The reverse wouldn't be true. So there was little incentive to create native apps for OS/2 compar…
I think this is aimed at developers. "You can build your app for Android and can test it directly on Windows. Pick a Windows machine, not a Mac..."
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They're already doing it with WSL specific features such as the DirectX driver. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-heart-linux/
Explain how "Microsoft puts a DirectX in WSL" stops you from running Linux in future? Because it really doesn't seem like it will affect you or what you can do in any way at all.
2. People write "Linux" apps that require directx
3. Linux technically stays an option but is unable to run apps without NT underneath, and nobody writes plain Linux apps because of market effects
Weak because people could still write apps for just Linux, plausible because convincing people to divert effort to the MS way would work and is classic EEE.
A Microsoft announcement about running Google Android OS apps, that you download via Amazon's App Store on Windows.
That's wild
This is based on AOSP and not Closed source Google Android. So wait for Google to cancel Microsofts licence to make Android devices.
I didn't come yet across an app I would want to run on my computer.
This is a good tech demo but feature wise pretty useless. Windows 8 and the UWP mess already proved that people don't want "apps" on their PCs. I can't think of a single Android app that I would use on my desktop or laptop right now.
Sure, but other people can have different needs. I installed Bluestacks just so that I could run my bank's Android app on my desktop: unlike the bank's website, to pay with the app I only have to enter a 5-digit code. But having the app run on a phone is error prone and slow and a lot of manual typing because all its input (account numbers, amounts, ...) come from other documents/pdfs/websites/emails and I can navigate all of that much faster on a desktop. So: the app on the desktop is, for me, the fastest and most convenient banking way I found so far.
This is a good tech demo but feature wise pretty useless. Windows 8 and the UWP mess already proved that people don't want "apps" on their PCs. I can't think of a single Android app that I would use on my desktop or laptop right now.
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Mobile games are meant for use with hands and gestures. Not sure how a mouse would be fun with that.
Windows is not macOS - it supports touchscreens and most Windows notebooks have touchscreens!
I am saying that as someone who got excited by the thought and actually bought a Dell touchscreen laptop.
In laptop mode, its just not worth it.