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> What has this to do with Windows 8 at all? I think he really meant Windows RT. My guess is that, to either increase their margins on sales or to appeal to t
by pudquick 14y ago
> What has this to do with Windows 8 at all?
I think he really meant Windows RT.
My guess is that, to either increase their margins on sales or to appeal to the "budget PC" consumer, they were attempting to get one or more of the various flavors of new ARM-based Windows RT offerings, which tend to come with UEFI secure boot and are more difficult (but not impossible) to get Linux on.
- cooldeal 14y agoThat makes even less sense. Why blame a platform that is barely selling? You might as well blame the iPad for not making it easy to install Linux. Or just grab a Nexus Tab 10 or Asus Transformer or even a ARM Chromebook, slap their version of Linux or whatever on it and sell it. How is that different from trying to get Linux on a Windows RT machine?
- 18pfsmt 14y agoI really don't care about this issue at all, but if I have to read any more threads with you relentlessly defending Windows, you have to disclose your employer. Looking at your comment history, you are obsessed, and I don't think it's fair. Same goes for recoiledsnake. To me, a vaguely interested reader, you all come off as zealots.
- mkr-hn 14y agoYes, that's such an unusual phenomenon at HN. Microsoft is the first company to bring out vocal supporters in this place.
- 18pfsmt 14y agoAre you trying to make some vague point through sarcastic remarks? If so, I find it completely unhelpful and unconstructve. I am pretty sure internet snark is long-since outgrown by most of HN. Feel free to add something of substance.
- mkr-hn 14y agoI find you completely unhelpful and unconstructive. I've criticized Apple and its acolytes before, but I've never accused one of being a plant. Consider the possibility that people are talking about Microsoft because the company is doing interesting things again. And I hope I never grow out of Internet snark.