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From: Tony Houghton on 4 Jan 2010 14:29
In <1g64k5d7it8gt7c1moenstmu7f85qrqnu2(a)4ax.com>,
Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance(a)OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> wrote:

> Note that there will be no *point* in Microsoft hastily putting together a
> version of Windows for Sabre, as they once did for PowerPC-based computers,
> because Sabre still wouldn't run "industry standard" Windows software
> because of the incompatible CPU. So the big advantage of Microsoft Windows
> is lost. Linux or Chrome OS will be necessary to ensure the availability
> of apps at launch because proprietary apps from multiple vendors (as per
> the Windows model) can not be recompiled en-masse for a different CPU --
> but freely-distributed Linux apps can.

Windows Mobile is already well established on ARM PDAs. They're supposed
to be releasing WM7 this year.

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From: Dave Farrance on 4 Jan 2010 15:45
Tony Houghton <h(a)realh.co.uk> wrote:

>In <1g64k5d7it8gt7c1moenstmu7f85qrqnu2(a)4ax.com>,
>Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance(a)OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Note that there will be no *point* in Microsoft hastily putting together a
>> version of Windows for Sabre, as they once did for PowerPC-based computers,
>> because Sabre still wouldn't run "industry standard" Windows software
>> because of the incompatible CPU. So the big advantage of Microsoft Windows
>> is lost. Linux or Chrome OS will be necessary to ensure the availability
>> of apps at launch because proprietary apps from multiple vendors (as per
>> the Windows model) can not be recompiled en-masse for a different CPU --
>> but freely-distributed Linux apps can.
>
>Windows Mobile is already well established on ARM PDAs. They're supposed
>to be releasing WM7 this year.

Well... smartphones, anyway.
From: alexd on 4 Jan 2010 17:36
Meanwhile, at the uk.comp.os.linux Job Justification Hearings, Dave Farrance
chose the tried and tested strategy of:

> Note that there will be no *point* in Microsoft hastily putting together a
> version of Windows for Sabre, as they once did for PowerPC-based
> computers, because Sabre still wouldn't run "industry standard" Windows
> software because of the incompatible CPU. So the big advantage of
> Microsoft Windows is lost. Linux or Chrome OS will be necessary to ensure
> the availability of apps at launch because proprietary apps from multiple
> vendors (as per the Windows model) can not be recompiled en-masse for a
> different CPU -- but freely-distributed Linux apps can.

Why not install the Dalvik VM in WinMo and get the best of both worlds? :-P

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From: Dave Farrance on 5 Jan 2010 06:11
alexd <troffasky(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

>Meanwhile, at the uk.comp.os.linux Job Justification Hearings, Dave Farrance
>chose the tried and tested strategy of:
>
>> Note that there will be no *point* in Microsoft hastily putting together a
>> version of Windows for Sabre, as they once did for PowerPC-based
>> computers, because Sabre still wouldn't run "industry standard" Windows
>> software because of the incompatible CPU. So the big advantage of
>> Microsoft Windows is lost. Linux or Chrome OS will be necessary to ensure
>> the availability of apps at launch because proprietary apps from multiple
>> vendors (as per the Windows model) can not be recompiled en-masse for a
>> different CPU -- but freely-distributed Linux apps can.
>
>Why not install the Dalvik VM in WinMo and get the best of both worlds? :-P

Dalvik executables (which are compacted Java apps) are suitable for
systems that are constrained in terms of display, memory and processor
speed, like smartphones. Sabre is a computer spec.
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