"Microsoft is over – game over – from my point of view," Netgear co-founder Patrick Lo was quoted as saying several days ago. Steve Ballmer, one of the last remaining senior executives (along with Mundie, as many of the rest fled), needs to explain financial oddities and following "Microsoft Death Watch" (series of posts) Wayne does a number on him. Among the problems listed is the surge of Linux in devices -- either small- or medium-sized:
Power requirements are an issue. Windows is designed for top of the line hardware, not some pokey little ARM chip, so it’s not usable. Because most of the new applications we are going to see over the next couple of years will use ARM. Remember hearing that Google TV is being put back a year? It’s being put back because governments want low powered TV sets, and Google made the mistake of specifying X86 hardware. X86 isn’t low power. So Google had to switch to ARM, which while itself wasn’t difficult (since the software was running on the Linux kernel, which works fine on ARM), is delaying the project.
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girts
2011-02-03 08:32:48
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-02-03 08:37:33
techwrongs
2011-02-03 23:00:43
What's stopping you?
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-02-03 23:02:23
techwrongs
2011-02-03 23:13:28
From what I have seen thus far, I don't think you are capable, not even a little.
You would probably choke on the call, wouldn't you?
twitter
2011-02-03 23:30:34
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-02-04 06:21:29
techwrongs
2011-02-03 23:33:17
twitter
2011-02-03 23:35:58
techwrongs
2011-02-03 23:38:00
If you want to fight Microsoft, man up and do it.
twitter
2011-02-03 23:40:19
techwrongs
2011-02-03 23:59:51
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-02-04 06:22:20
Now you know how I feel about you.
techwrongs
2011-02-04 13:32:36
Oh, you feel something for me?
I'm flattered.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-02-04 13:34:34
techwrongs
2011-02-04 14:19:14
I am the community, Roy.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-02-04 14:22:07
twitter
2011-02-03 00:44:09
Thanks for catching the Microsoft footnote. I'm going to add it to my Microsoft Death Watch.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-02-03 08:38:51
Neken
2011-02-02 22:42:06
http://blogs.pcmag.com/miller/2011/01/ces_2011_windows_on_arm_headli.php
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/05/microsoft-confirms-arm-support-is-coming-in-windows-will-play-n/
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-02-02 22:48:16
So what's the point?
Neken
2011-02-02 22:50:30
Microsoft is releasing Windows 8 that runs on ARM. His point is invalid. Can't see why I had to explain this.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-02-02 22:57:13
http://techrights.org/2011/01/12/arm-harm-by-microsoft-windows/ http://techrights.org/2011/01/06/microsoft-boosters-ridiculing-microsoft/
twitter
2011-02-02 23:25:04
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-02-03 08:40:22
[PDF]
which also says: 'Ideally, use of the competing technology becomes associated with mental deficiency, as in, "he believes in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and OS/2."'Clanky
2011-02-03 22:10:58
Come on guys, put your efforts into making linux succeed by being better, no amount of pretending that Microsoft is dying is going to make it happen and when they eventually do die (as all companies must at some point) no amount of bullshit internet posts is going to make it happen any faster.
It's like the kings new clothes, everyone seems to be afraid to be the one to stand up and shout "fucking hell, Linux is naked".
As for the original article, I think arm could actually be a good thing for Linux, but I hope that people will be talking about Linux on arm because it is good rather than because it is not as bad as whatever Windows implementation is designed for it.
When you talk about nothing but Windows and Microsoft you make them the standard by which everything else is judged, maybe some of the other posters on here are right and you are being paid by microsoft to discredit the entire FOSS community, now that would be epic trolling! :D
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-02-03 22:17:32
Sigh. Go back to Lins*x.
techwrongs
2011-02-03 22:59:20
Sigh. Go back to Lins*x."
Way to troll there, Roy. He had pretty good points, but you immediately dismissed them because you refuse to see the forest for the trees.
If you want to be taken seriously, you should be a bigger man. This post reeks of drool. Did you drool while you wrote it?
Are you paid by Microsoft to discredit FOSS, Roy? Your utter lack of intellectual response to Clanky above indicates that you may not have the intellectual capacity to do anything but troll your own site.
How sad.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-02-03 23:03:21
With attitude like this you deserve no response.
techwrongs
2011-02-03 23:11:37
Way to play your man card there. There is no response because I am right, and you can't prove that I am not right.
You are so full of yourself that you have destroyed your own credibility. I'm not going anywhere, Roy. As long as you post lies, and deceitful, derogatory statements, I'll be here to call you out on them.
Welcome to your new world, Roy.
twitter
2011-02-04 00:29:09
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-02-04 06:23:17
techwrongs
2011-02-04 13:32:04
I love this name, please, keep using it.
"Nice threat"
A threat implies intent of harm, I am not here to harm anyone. Just the opposite. I am here to help inform people of Roys lies.
It is simple to make me go away. Just be honest.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-02-04 13:33:48
twitter
2011-02-04 14:03:13
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-02-04 14:07:22
techwrongs
2011-02-04 14:18:17
Roy, you are no better than your enemy. Your dishonesty harms us all.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-02-04 14:21:32
techwrongs
2011-02-04 14:30:04
The readers will make their own decisions.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-02-04 14:38:12
That's what SCO said...
techwrongs
2011-02-04 14:41:28
Yes, that's what SCO said. Except, in this case the evidence is in my comments.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-02-04 14:47:02
techwrongs
2011-02-04 14:56:28
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-02-04 15:00:57
techwrongs
2011-02-04 15:13:56
You still have yet to prove that I am wrong in any statement that I have made.