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I've said this before and I'll say it again: Microsoft isn't doing this to ban Ubuntu / Linux in general, but to prevent Android from spreading. With ICS being
by ivanbernat 14y ago
I've said this before and I'll say it again: Microsoft isn't doing this to ban Ubuntu / Linux in general, but to prevent Android from spreading. With ICS being a great OS, many (tech) folks would simply dual-boot ICS on their WinRT devices.
- beedogs 14y agoBut those people will just figure out a way to do that anyway. I don't see the point in these decisions to expend likely a lot of time, effort, and money eliminating edge cases.
- chucknelson 14y agoYou never know, if Microsoft allowed it that could open the door to marketing and such that could lead to Win8+Android tablets being mainstream or something. Not that it would be likely, but I'm sure Microsoft would want to stave off any chance of that happening in the early days of the platform.
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- silon3 14y agoVirtualization is better than dual boot anyway. MS better make it run well virtualized.
- gouranga 14y agoFor reference, it absolutely fucking sucks under virtualization.
- commandar 14y agoOn hardware that's powerful enough to handle virtualization well, sure. It looks like ARM has gotten some virtualization extensions recently, but I still have my doubts as to how pleasant the experience would be on sub 1.5GHz processors.