
It's like a zebra ironing a shirt
...I just can't picture it.
Larry will sell his children if it lets him sell more ads.
Ballmer would rather hack off a testicle with a rusty saw than do anything with Google.
But... I've been wrong before.
Google will launch Android 5.0 - codenamed Jellybean - as early as Q3 2012, to coincide with the launch of Microsoft's Windows 8 and offer dual-OS designs for tablet computers. Taiwan-based supply chain makers have fuelled the rumour mill again, this time with claims Android 5.0 is closer in the pipeline than we may have …
Apart from the questions raised above I also wonder if it would be possible that neither Google nor Microsoft realizes the impact of made decisions. Google overlooking Windows 8 and Microsoft overlooking both Android 5 and this particular dual-existence feature.
Could be fun, because if this scenario holds truth then I think its safe to assume that the moment either company realizes all this they'll be running to their lawyers. There's got to be a patent violation or two to be found in there.... Katschjing!
Inclined to agree with Tom. Windows 8 (and WOA) will provide access to Office and SkyDrive. Other than browsing that's probably the most asked-for use case* on a tablet.
* That's based on conversations I have with my clients, which range from aerospace/defence to civil service, retail, and financial services (investment banking and insurance).
Though you didn't choose to Reply to my post I guess it's me you're talking to. So explain why, if Android does everything on Arm, I'd want to run windows as well (if I'm a normal user...) Though obviously if my mum was using a tablet the first thing she'd want would be to get round the "signed kernel issue"....
You are not a customer of Microsoft. Windows users are not customers of Microsoft. You are customers of OEMs and retailers who are the customers of Microsoft.
Microsoft looks after (or tries to) its customers: the OEMs and retailers. These want to sell more hardware and software more often for more revenue and profit.
If Microsoft could make the hardware run slower a little bit each day so that what was blazing fast in the shop is now turgid and unresponsive compared to new shiny computers in the shop, then that would make their (MS's) customers very happy.
Some think that MS did that.
I and several hundred thousand other Touchpad owners already have a dual booting tablet and I have to say that I think it works very well. Personally I use webOS far more often but having the choice is a very nice feature.
I wouldn't see MS and Google working together though, more likely HP and Google
My HTC HD2 running winmo 6.5/winphone 7 and Android GB/ICS. No?
Hell, I get a Galaxy Note to dual boot WinPhone from the SD and I am there, with a dual boot phonletab/tabphone/tablet (phone as well), phone that's also a tablet.. Ok, I give up with that one. You know the device I mean...