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Please correct me If I am wrong. But I think with WSL and this, Microsoft proved they are much much more superior than Google and Apple when it comes to serious
by 0xFFC 9y ago
Please correct me If I am wrong. But I think with WSL and this, Microsoft proved they are much much more superior than Google and Apple when it comes to serious system software development (they have to be, they have developed one of the most complex Kernel of the all times and maintained and improved it for decades. Yes I am linux guy too. But Widnows Kernel is extremely complex and well architectured piece of software ever written). Yes, Google does have very good applications, apple does have too.
But when it comes to hardcore system software development stuff. They are unbeatable. Emulating entire x86 on ARM? This is mind blowing.
They have pulled good emulation before too (one I think was inside XBOX).
But this is going to be serious. I would say very serious.
Extremely good battery life would give Microsoft, very good edge over Apple.
1) Qualcomm will be the winner. and so other ARM CPU manufacturer. and Intel is the biggest loser here.
2) Microsoft will hit market with this. After this they will have extremely good position to release good phone, and here we stand, I see successful future for Windows Phone.
3) From Computer Architecture perspective, the bottleneck is not memory or CPU speed. It is IO and energy. I don't know how this will impact on IO. But I am almost sure this is unbeatable from energy efficiency, and when I (and almost all people I know) buying a laptop. battery life is almost the most important aspect of it.
- nbevans 9y agoI voted you up as it's rare a Linux man would show any kind of respect to the - actually very very good - NT kernel. Good post also.
- mtgx 9y agoI agree this is harder and more impressive, but I thought Google's idea to run the entire Android framework at near-native speeds on Chrome OS inside a container was quite a smart technical solution as well.
- 0xFFC 9y agoWhich they haven't implemented it yet. have you any experience with it? It is terrible, laggy, and doesn't work sometimes. Even google does not advertise it like they did before.