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Re: After Announcing Plans To Destroy Microsoft Windows, HP CEO Pulls A Gutsy Move

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Post by rbanffy » Fri, Jun 13, 2014, 1:10 AM UTC

ihaveone wrote: post #21

Linkbait. Windows would have to be re-coded, which is easier with open-source.

Not quite.

Windows, like Linux, assumes a certain architecture: one or more processors connected to volatile memory that holds transient data and much slower persistent storage that is required to preserve a consistent state for long periods.

You don't see "Windows for D-Wave computers" and you won't see "Windows for HP's The Machine".

Any new OS will have to, at least, have a POSIX API if it wants to be used from day one, but, from that point, HP is free to invent.

I wish them luck.

Re: After Announcing Plans To Destroy Microsoft Windows, HP CEO Pulls A Gutsy Move

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Post by rbanffy » Fri, Jun 13, 2014, 1:14 AM UTC

shearnie wrote: post #43

Microsoft will rebuild Windows and contribute to the open market of OS's. They'll also rebuild Azure so their data centers will use memristors.

How would you rebuild Windows into something that runs on a machine where there is no volatile memory and no distinction between memory and persistent storage?

Whatever results from this would only be called Windows for marketing reasons.

Re: After Announcing Plans To Destroy Microsoft Windows, HP CEO Pulls A Gutsy Move

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Post by outside1234 » Sat, Jun 14, 2014, 12:50 AM UTC

tormeh wrote: post #40

outside1234 wrote: post #15

What, 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?

They run the computers with screens on Windows. All the servers and rack-mounted stuff is mostly Linux these days, as far as I know.

70% of Enterprise servers are Windows.