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OLPC shows off XO 3 tablet running Android or Linux

Where's Microsoft

and where are their fanbois saying that children need to be learning the Windows user interface and software because that's what they'll be using once they get out of school? What? Windows is moving to yet another user interface and software application framework? No wonder they're keeping their mouths shut this time.

If only Negroponte listened to all the people(inside OLPC and outside) who said that Microsoft on the XO was nothing but a stalling technique and they never intended to produce a viable product.

The tablet looks great and the video showing the Sugar Labs Sugar interface and applications looks great. They also put lots of effort into design again with how the connectors can or can't be covered by the protective cover and how an external battery can recharge the device.

Nokia: There will be NO smartphone division selloff to Microsoft

they can't afford "success" like XBox with WP

The XBox project has cost them 10s of billions and is just now bringing in some quarterly profits. But you know what? Android licensing fees brings in more money. So if that is success, I don't think Microsoft can continue to lose billions annually on the WP project over the next 10 years.

and what would you expect Elop or Microsoft to say if it were true? I guess by saying there will be no smartphone sell off it could mean there'll be a complete sell out or some other form of sell out.

"eat this" because the story was more fluff than stuff.

Nokia Ace to launch from $100m mountain of ad cash

release in March 2012. When will the Windows Phone 8 ads begin?

Microsoft is all into Windows 8 these days and their "leaked" Windows Phone road map talked about a superphone in late 2012. Can we really believe that the WindowsCE based Windows Phone 7 is capable of being a "superphone" and with the timing of Windows 8( for ARM too ) I wonder if Nokia can survive this mess. Microsoft is still pushing a crusty OS layer on WP7 and while Nokia is spending on ads for that, Microsoft will be singing the praises of Windows 8. And that'll include Windows 8 on ARM tablets and netbooks too. With iPhone OS(iOS) and Android runnign on smartphones, tablets and netbooks how can anyone miss the connection between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8?

Nokia is doubly screwed here. So it goes, they have made the bed and must now lie in it.

side topic: US market - seems a number of Android devices missing US market

Anyone notice these marketing dollars are for the US market? What could also be tied in with some of Microsoft's money is how we see a number of Android devices getting released outside of the US market with no mention of any release into the US market.

As we've seen many times before, Microsoft marketing deals often are tied in with exclusionary elements regarding competing products. This goes back as far as the DOS and OS/2 days and hasn't stopped.

we won't see or hear about its hardware

because Windows Phone 7 does not support the current generation of phone hardware( dual core CPU and 1GB+ RAM ). They will have to do "branding" style of marketing or market Windows phone. so this should lead to some rather poor ads but maybe some funny/haha ones too.

Intel gets Atoms out ahead of CES

didn't Intel help start the netbook segment with the ClassMate PC

IIRC, OLPC started the tiny laptop craze and the concept of creating a low cost laptop-like device. Intel freaked because OLPC would not use power hungry Intel chips( Microsoft freaked too and also spent millions attacking OLPC ) so they came out with their own laptop for children. It was called the ClassMate PC and while it did not have many of the features of the OLPC XO, it was a small cheap laptop which ran either Microsoft Windows XP or GNU/Linux. I think there was even a story about thousands of ClassMate PCs getting shipped where Microsoft got involved and signed a deal putting Windows on them even when the CTO wanted GNU/Linux. They then sent the Windows ClassMate PCs to a 3rd party who then put GNU/Linux on them.

Had Intel, and Microsoft, not gone all ape over the OLPC devices I don't think we'd have seen the netbook market when we did. Too bad Intel and Microsoft both then went and set artificial limits on what an OEM could do in making a netbook using their hardware and software.

And where the heck are the Tegra 2 or Tegra 3 based Netbooks?

A simple HTML tag will crash 64-bit Windows 7

McFly

"which contains the kernel portion of the Windows user interface"

Really, user interface elements in the kernel might be a problem.

Duff Mars probe's flaming shards to rain down mid-January

another small factor guessing where the parts will land is that little bit about it's many metric tons of fuel expanding quite rapidly some time during the re-entry.

Android malware victims offered free WinPhones by MS

many employees, some are likely to be paid to post on blogs

the cat's already out of the bag on this but it seems many don't know that Microsoft pays people to post to blogs and forums. There should be little doubt that a company like Microsoft who is taking a wooping in the smartphone segment is behind many pro-Windows and pro-Microsoft posts here and elsewhere. I dont' think that many of their 1.7% user base are going to cause this much talk back.

Nokia exec: Young fashonistas 'fed up' with iPhone

and everybody is screaming for Windows phones

do people post things like this article as a joke or what? There's been decades of Microsoft paying for "research" and "studies" which always showed what was hot sucked and that Microsoft's shit didn't stink. MS-Nokia isn't any different and besides, when an executive makes statements, he or she is going to boost their point of view. When acting like a Microsoft, they'll always disparage the others if there is even a message their product is better.

Because you know, the customers are asking for it.

Is Microsoft brewing a Win8, WinPho code merge?

they'd better get doing and fast

the current phone hardware is leaving Windows Phone OS behind in the dust since it can't run on multi-core SoC's no matter if it's "needed" or not. Remeber, 64K is all the memory anyone ever needed right?

The first quad core phone is due to ship in Q2 2012 and the first tablet in weeks and most shipping smart phones are dual core now and it's in all the marketing. Looking at MS WP7 marketing and you see "hardware" specs but often you don't see the processor even listed let alone it's speed. ie they must remote the emphasis on the CPU when, like in the PC sector, it's front and center every where else.

And then we have Windows 8 due out late 2012 and no word on Window Phone 8 or what that'll all be about. The elephant in the room is wondering why nobody's looking at it. Microsoft is very loud about Windows 8 on tablets yet all the tablets out there are running the phone OS and apps are compatible with the phone OS( now with Android ICS ).

So what's the message Microsoft or are you _still_ trying to figure out what's going on as the world passes you by?

Windows 8 fondleslabs: Microsoft tip-toes through PC-makers' disaster

after all, they are doing so well with their phone efforts

without being able to link to the desktop, how are they ever going to get anywhere with the tablets? Doesn't the phone segment show how a lack of leverage with the desktop relates to failure for Microsoft?

I just don't see them doing much more than spending billions in advertising and exclusive product deals( think Nokia ) and the result will be the same as their phone efforts.

Nokia is past its best-by date, warns analyst

former Microserf and now CEO of Nokia said it was why they skipped Android

He said that using Android on Nokia devices would just make them another in a crowd. None in the press picked up on this that Microsoft tightly controls the hardware and the software so it's even worst with Microsoft. Except Google wouldn't drop a billion+ dollars into Nokia's pockets.

But the key to tell you where Elop was coming from was when he said Google was their enemy. That was a pure 100% Microserf-ism so the clue wagon was out there and in plain sight.

As others stated here, none of this is news to those how read The Reg regularly and have "a clue".

Red Hat engineer renews attack on Windows 8-certified secure boot

Isn't this a responsibility of EU and DOJ due to monopoly positions

Microsoft can not require a feature which would block other OS vendors from access to the systems. I would not think that anti-trust laws would allow them to do this and simply saying the OEM can decide is not a solution. If they require something which blocks over OS vendors then they must REQUIRE that feature have the ability to be disabled.

Addressing this after the fact would be too late. Also, are they serious? Using a prototype tablet they had direct hand in and are using for their promos as proof that it's no big deal. Beta hardware and software is not what anyone should trust will be the norm and if you know Microsoft, their betas often look very different from what ships.

MS denies secure boot will exclude Linux

boot.ini and how MS protects you when installing another OS

Look, Microsoft already does not play well with other operating systems by disabling the other OS in their boot process when you install Windows. They put up a screen telling you that you can re-enable the other OS by changing boot.ini when it's a 1-2 line addition to the file they could do if they wanted to play well with others.

read my lips:

THEY ARE NOT IN THIS GAME TO MAKE ANY OTHER OS EASY TO USE WITH WINDOWS.

So they say it is up to the OEM to allow other OSes to boot with UEFI and you should know what pressure and control Microsoft exerts on OEMs to do what Microsoft wants. Unless OEM's are legally forced to provide those unlocking keys when the product ships, we will not get them easily or at all.

Fix your crappy OS Microsoft and leave the hardware open.

HP expected to hand Whitman full fat CEO role

HPbay

so Meg will be auctioning off parts of HP until the only thing left is not really what people care to use anymore.

I remember when HP was a tech company from floor to ceiling. too long ago.

Windows 8 fondleslabs rock up on eBay

gawd, not even close to the iPad specs

that thing is a beast and even thinking there was any comparison to an iPad shows either ignorance or a lame attempt at clicks because of the inclusion of the iPad name.

FYI, that beast runs an Intel Core i5-2467M 1.6GHz dual core CPU, 4GB RAM, and 64GB SSD.

if you think Intel's Core i5 are comparable to Apples ARM A5 you need to go back to school.

Now Windows 8 goes into the ring to face Apple's iOS

must must must run on light battery powered devices or it's just another Windows

does the iPad weight 2 lbs? is it running with the performance of an Intel Core i5 CPU? And how long will that Windows 8 tablet run on battery power?

I've read nothing which shows this isn't just another version of Windows with the marketing people telling you it'll be a great tablet OS. Bill Gates had been saying that for years and every time it has been the same thing, expensive over burdened hardware to run a bloated OS. The results have been consistent for Microsoft. same old song and dance, same failure.

Hands on with the Windows 8 fondleslab

why all the talk about the laptop^H^H^H^H^H^Htablet since it's tied to mains and desk

so it's a "developers tablet" and is not portable so why spend 3/4 of the article talking about a bloated piece of hardware? And didn't Microsoft say that your new applications will run on a Windows 8 desktop and tablet? That would mean there was no need for a "developers tablet" unless it's swag to try and get developers to look at it.

And just because you see the label ARM, it does not mean it is what you see in Apple iPads or Android machines. Some vendors are sampling quad core ARM Cortex a9 chips and those are probably what you see Windows 8 running on.

This really sounds like the same old Windows tablet gig we've heard for the past 20 years. Expect something too heavy to easily use or else it'll be under powered or have a very short battery life.

Why Android houses should give Google the 'fork you'

nook color

it couldn't have been that the initial Galaxy Tab hardware was a yawn-er, nor could it be the price. To not even mention the Barns and Noble Nook Color and it's $250 price when it's is an example of how to work in the eco-system of Google seems like the author only wanted to get his point across and not present something to provoke a discussion.

Lawsuit alleges that Windows Phone 7 tracks users

re: Is the allegation true?

one would think it would be very easy to figure out by putting a WiFi connected WP7 on a sniffed network and turn on the camera application. I see one problem though and that is finding someone with a WP7 device.

Developer fury as Google makes Android apps vanish

get a life people

this article doesn't say what the problem is, what kind of apps are not being listed when searched by name( scam apps maybe? ) or anything other than some app developers don't like the changes. Yet post after post is about big brother google. WTF, are there that many chicken little followers out there?

Nokia posts massive loss, blames 'ambiguity'

RE: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish writ large

but previous EEE executions have been to threats on their big money maker, Windows. Nokia was not a threat to Windows but Apple and Android are. As another mentioned, this is probably a poly to get Nokia's patent portfolio cheaply. Unlike others have mentioned, it will not and is not being used to generate profits for Microsoft. A couple hundred million is a drop in the bucket compared to what funds the company. I'm talking about the billions in PROFITS every quarter which come from Windows.

Microsoft's plan for these patents is to shut down the competition by making them too expensive and at the same time they'll be handing out WP7 or WP8 licenses like Skoal at a NASCAR race. I wouldn't be surprised to read about millions in marketing funds making an instant profit for OEMs while giving Windows Phone phones away for free. All in the name of cutting Apple and Google out of being in control of application API's and pushing Windows app development into the basement.

EEE is about protecting the money and a few million from patent licensing is nothing compared to what is threatened. That's their billions per month coming from Windows. I just heard someone tell me they use their computer at home about once per week now because they do everything on their iPhone.

SHOUT because there's a guy behind the curtain pulling strings people are not noticing.

Nokia ‘giving away phones at cost’

As Steve Ballmer says to his mini-me(Elop),

My plan is working peeeerfectly.

Google: The one trick pony learns a second trick

um, Microsoft pays vendors to use Windows too

you make it sound like Google sharing it's ad revenue with Android licensees is this evil thing and completely blow over how Microsoft has been paying vendors for years. they've paid vendors like HP to ship Windows CE on handhelds and they've paid vendors to put XP on netbooks all at the expense of any other OS. Sure, it's called something like The Microsoft Marketing Program but the effect is money gets paid back to the vendor for shipping Microsoft software.

But you hit a BIG point in the article. Google makes money from advertising and they can give some of the money generated by users of devices back to the makers of the devices. This is a game changer in the old school software world and no doubt it has Microsoft and other shaking in their boots.

As for why Google put Android on the market, Microsoft did a great job at crushing the handheld computer market and left it languishing and the Palm Treo OS wasn't up to the task. Apple finally shipped the iPhone and Android was sent back to the drawing board. What was shipped was not set out to be an "iPhone Killer" but to get more mobile users on the internet and using Google search. Apple was keeping distribution of the iPhone restricted to one vendor, AT&T, and pricing it to the high end. This is not new news and Google has even stated themselves that they want more people on the internet which will mean more eyes on their ads. That is unless you partner with Microsoft and therefore you're tied to a distant 2nd in search, ie BING, and are also enemies with Google by proxy.

Behind Microsoft's $15 Samsung Android royalty claim

read up on the B&N patent dispute

what you will find is Microsoft repeatedly tried to force signing an NDA and repeatedly hammered the B&N people on having an NDA and even pulled out an old NDA signed for a different project and tried to use it. Microsoft is using thuggery and threats to get people to sign NDA's and therefore keeping all the discussions private and out of the public ear.

the B&N lawyers are the first bunch of lawyers I've seen in the tech industry who seem to know what is going on and are telling Microsoft to go "eF" themselves with all the threats.

Buy a Nook or Nook Color people and help support a company willing to fight this patent thuggery currently going on.

patents ARE public

so the fact that Microsoft is not listing the patent shows they are using them only as threats and do not want the public to know which patents they are using as clubs.

Microsoft muzzles IE chief's 'native HTML' nonsense

listening to Microsoft is like listening to OJ Simpson

everybody knows and nobody would listen to OJ Simpson say he didn't kill those people. Why does anyone publish or listen to Microsoft people? I would be shocked and stunned if Microsoft supported WebGL unless there was a way for them to subvert it so it was a Windows-only implementation. They do not care about standards because standards don't keep Windows the only important thing in the world.

we don't care or listen to OJ any more so can we please stop publishing Microsoft people mouthing how everything but their shit stinks?

MeeGo and the Great Betrayal Myths of tech history

how did Microsoft forced the ISO to make OOXML a standard? Ask again why OS/2 lost to DOS/Windows

it's well known to those who were around at the time how Microsoft kept Windows in OEM computers and OS/2 off of OEM computers and it was not all IBM's fault. Microsoft was doing the same thing in 2000 with Windows CE and now we find people thinking Apple invented app stores for handheld computers. Microsoft has always used its position in the market to force their will on those selling computer hardware. Also remember that the year Google Android hit the market, the dominant mobile phone conference of the year held just 6 months earlier had no OEM showing their Android phones and they couldn't talk about it and would only talk about Windows Mobile.

As for Elop saying that Nokia's Plan B is to make sure Plan A works; that sounds like he's willing to run the company into the ground. I guess it's not politically correct to tell investors his Plan B is to hand Nokia's carcass over to Microsoft for next to nothing.

Spawn of satin because we're talking about Elop

Nokia market share to fall below Samsung, Apple

re: Ditching Symbian for MS?

Elop claimed that Google was a competitor( of Nokia I presume ) and also that if they chose Android they would be just another Android phone vendor. Both are bogus since Elop does not work for Microsoft any more(questionable) and are they not now just another Windows phone vendor.

Microsoft gets five bucks for every HTC Android phone

what about Barnes & Noble

Microsoft is after them and keep trying to beat them with signing an NDA to keep it all quiet but B&N would not fall for it. $5 is excessive considering Microsoft charges that or slightly more for their entire OS. HTC is a chump for playing this game with Microsoft. And they should be moving ext4 onto these things since most of the time the SD card is not easily removed. And besides, has the SD vendors also paid Microsoft so that would put the cost even higher overall for the privilege of reading and writing VFAT.

Stop because this needs to stop NOW

Intel switches ARM stance from 'No' to 'Maybe'

re: Second thoughts

if Intel builds ARM chips they are fueling the competition to x86 and x86 is where most all their profits come from. It's the same reason Microsoft supports next to no software on anything but Windows. And if Intel refuses to build ARM on 22nm then were else is that vendor to go for 22nm? Nowhere because Intel is almost always first with the smaller chips and it is their one big advantage.

The CEO was correct, Intel will never build ARM and the other guy was just putting some frosting on it so it doesn't taste/look so bad. they may discuss it but the discussion would be very short and consist of one word, "no". But they can spin it as discussing it.

Intel rewrites 'inadequate' roadmap, 'reinvents' PC

ARM vendors keeping up w/Intel moves so they double their die shrink speed

it reminds me of the cold war race where spending was increased to bankrupt the competition. I don't see this winning for Intel since they've been pushing Atoms onto the newest die shrinks and still they follow ARM on older/larger processes. All I see here is at best Intel finally meeting ARM who'll be 2-3 shrinks behind them and still much cheaper and all this in 3 years?

I think we might see a processor market change. I was hopeful for Alpha but that didn't last and then it was PowerPC. Way to go ARM. Now we just need to see if we're talking Android+, ChromeOS, or even Linux in good numbers before Windows marketing promises suck the intelligence out of all of the press and everyone waits for a version of Windows that's worth anything on ARM hardware.

Intel: Windows on ARM won't run 'legacy apps'

re 65bit one bit better than the rest

maybe there is a reason there is still so much 32bit-ness in Windows 7 64bit. We keep hearing about how Windows X is new an written from the ground up but we also constantly find out it is not true and there's lots of old code still in there.

because of all the old stuff still in Windows, the ARM version is not going to look nor act much like what you would consider as Windows. Much like how Windows CE/Mobile/PocketPC/Phone7 are not like Windows. _that_ should be the news IMO and not that Windows on ARM will not run x86 code. The latter is just stating the obvious.

re: Generations

the difference was that it was Microsoft forcing those incompatibilities and not the hardware. Intel is trying to spread FUD about ARM because that's all they have to use to compete since x86 won't be as efficient as ARM and they know they can't keep shrinking the die to just get close.

And Windows 8 can not be incompatible with Windows 7 or Vista apps. Microsoft does not have that luxury any more. As for Windows 8 for ARM, that is not going to look like desktop Windows, it can't. I even have my doubts they can get it running well enough on the ARM platforms of the time and have it run well without gutting much of what people come to believe and know as Windows. I doubt many desktop .Net apps will run well on the ARM version and MS Office is so full of binary junk it's going to take years, if ever, to figure out how to port that. Just look at how OOXML was spec'ed for a clue as to how much binary junk is unknown to them.

And seriously, is it not obvious that Windows 8 for ARM will not run current or legacy x86 Windows applications? Really, this is news?

Think carefully before you chuck out your desktops

re: What goes around...

UNIX and X Window based systems have always had the advantages of remove file systems(NFS for example) and remote application runtimes so I agree, this is mostly a yawn. But what has always been awesome about UNIX/X is that the same application could run either remote or local depending on how it is started. It's also mind boggling how much has to be hacked together to make a Windows environment even close to manageable. From creating virtual machines to run different OS images in to remote display capability built on top of the OS instead of into the display and application framework.

Same here as I was running remote applications and using networked file systems and logins over 15 years ago and it worked great.

Russian rumor: Microsoft to buy Nokia for $30bn

re: There's a shock...

the reason MIcrosoft has been able to drive companies into the ground before purchasing/settling cheaply later is because they could pilfer their technology and embed it into Windows thereby netting them lots of customers and the other company gets none.

They can't leverage Windows in this way with the phone and therefore they can't wait to kill Nokia's customer base. It's very much like the Hotmail deal. They need the customers to let the PR folks loose with numbers showing how great they are. If they'd run off all the Hotmail customers, they'd be starting with zero and it would have taken years to show Outlook and then Exchange had so many customers to the detriment of Lotus Notes. Nokia has one of the top channel distribution networks for their phones and also lots of users but the user base is falling fast. They need the distribution channels intact and they need the user base.

If Nokia market share wasn't falling so fast, I wouldn't think twice that this story was bogus. But seeing the recent numbers means that Microsoft and Nokia need to work faster or there'll be little left of Nokia by the timeframe originally laid out. A full blown purchase might move the Microsoftification of Nokia along much faster.

Microsoft, Nokia, HTC fight Apple's 'App store' trademark

re: Didn't I read somewhere...

yes and a clue would be that it was Microsoft who paid millions to Lindows instead of the other way around.

US Navy produces smart, cheap 6kg fire+forget missile

strapped a beagleboard running OpenCV onto a dumb rocket

kewl

granade, because sometimes things must go boom

MicroSkype: Andreessen settles accounts with Ballmer

eliminating another one of Andreessen's products

if Andreessen is only after money then just maybe he feels a little bit happy about getting a reward for his investment but is that all he does this for? the money? If that's the case, I doubt he got enough or what he got made enough of a dent in Microsoft's wallet for him to rejoice. Microsoft used illegal business practices and purposefully targeted Andreessen's Netscape products and all he'd worked for and whom he worked with got dumped onto the street because of this. Not because Microsoft made a better product or some kind of legal business choices. We're talking coercion and threats and things like paying businesses to not use Netscape and paying companies to pay customers to not use Netscape.

Besides, Andreessen's got enough money to be doing VC work so unless he has become a money gobbler for the sake of collecting it, I doubt there's any feeling of getting back at Microsoft for what they did to Netscape Communications Inc.

the troll because the whole premise of there being a settling of accounts is a troll for comments.

Official: Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5bn

no Need some re-education

the purpose was to eliminate the cross platform "feature" of Skype to eliminate any value that provided to those other platforms. MSFT employees can continue thinking it's crap. What or how they try to tie it into Windows is another story but as per many many other cases of this, it'll be turned into a subordinate feature looking or acting nothing like its former self. And that doesn't matter because the purpose of the purchase is to eliminate the benefits it provided to non-Windows platforms.

not puzzling

Skype is an enabler on other platforms( ie not Windows ) and as such by purchasing it and removing it from the choices for those platforms they weaken those platforms.

It's really easy to know why Microsoft does things if you first consider how what they are doing protects the Windows market. Remember, Microsoft's efforts against Netscape was because Netscape was an enabler(cross platform browser ), Java was an enabler for developers(cross platform software), Flash is an enabler for web apps(cross platform). I've only seen one case where they went and bought or fought a Windows only product and that was Visio.

Skype is cross platform and currently "the" name in web video conferencing so by removing that from the options on other platforms, they strengthen their hold with Windows. As for the phones, they could hand the dead body of Skype out to the phone carriers to show Microsoft is a friend.

skull-cross swords because it's a hijacking and plunder in progress.

Microsoft adds RIM to its anti-Google axis

catching falling stars may get them a black hole

They hope it also gets them a worm hole to a universe where they have a successful market and keep Windows relevant. What are the odds of that happening? Not very good and it appears most people think Microsoft will get a black hole to nowhere for Windows Phone 7, 8, etc.

beer glass because they'll want to drink it still holding its shape.

Intel keeps heat on AMD with Tri-Gate transistors

you can't have your cake and eat it too

more cores is how they make it go faster because they've topped out on clock freqs and the only other way is with die shinks. And besides, less energy usage does not mean they are "all green" and shit. Less energy usage also means they can put more cores because another issue you're missing is getting rid of heat. You don't list "I don't care about heat or heat sinks". Less energy usage means more cores and that means more power if your OS and apps can understand multi-core and use that efficiently. CAD? oh, you must be using Windows, sorry for you.

Apple reportedly plans ARM shift for laptops

just need to match perf on laptops

the ARM solutions only have to match the performance of the Intel based laptops, not all of Intel's CPUs. With ARM chips already hitting 1.5GHz the current die shrink methods show it'll hit 2GHz in no time. Pair that with how small and power efficient multi-core ARM chips are as opposed to the best Intel can do you should see why Apple might go this route.

And if I were Apple and have seen demo's of what these multi-core high speed chips can do and had a tablet hardware they wanted to merge with their desktop over a few years then this is a no-brainer. ARM is already scaling up and it's pretty obvious that the future of CPU design is the multi-core method it makes sense and cents. I'm not much of a fan of Apple but they don't seem to be on the wrong path for profits and efficiency very often. Add their App Store for desktop and laptops and you also have a way to get ARM or x86 based apps to customers as needed without the customer knowing which one they need since the App Store infrastructure will figure that out and deliver the correct version for your hardware.

I also recall recent news of Apple teaming with Intel to build their ARM chips instead of Samsung doing it. If that means using Intel's new processes( 32nm, 22nm or even 3D 22nm ) then there's lots of things the faster smaller ARM chips will do.

It would be great to finally start to see ARM laptops as long as their boot systems are not locked to the OS. I also wonder how much Google ChromeOS has to do with all this since it could be what's triggered Microsoft Windows for ARM and that's triggered all the new interest in ARM in PC sized devices.

Nokia touted Meego to rivals, but nobody wanted to know

I call this a marketing event

Nokia had Maemo longer than they were teamed to do Meego and even had Maemo on one of their phone lines. What kind of reality is Elop selling to think Nokia was out trying to sell vendors on Meego without even having it on their own phones?

It sounds more like Elop is making stuff up to create a new history so to curb the ongoing discussions of his tight ties with Microsoft.

who's market share is Elop trying to increase?

"His charter is increasing market share and revenue..." I think you got the first part correct and that's it _and_ that market share increase he's aiming at is Microsoft Windows Phone OS market share. As for Nokia surviving this play to help Microsoft, the prognosis isn't looking good.

Amazon tablet, touchscreen Kindle on course for H2, say moles

wouldn't this seem to be more in response to the Color Nook

I was surprised the Color Nook wasn't even mentioned in the article since that seems to be Amazon's primary competitor and their Android based CN seems to be selling nicely. I love competition.

.NET Android and iOS clones stripped by Attachmate

Miguel finally getting his job at Microsoft

no doubt he'll try once again to get a job at the company he loves so much. As for Mono and Moolight, good riddens and if Microsoft wants Linux support then they should pay for it and keep it locked in parity with their Windows version or not at all. not at all it is.

RIM taps Microsoft Bing for phone and tablet search

Because Microsoft has a vested interest in RIM success. NOT

I didn't know RIM was in such bad shape. I guess they were able to say that is wasn't the existing BING default search deal causing users to flee by the truck load so bedding with Microsoft for search and maps is better for RIM customers. Which is an interesting though considering Google got the search and map market share with user choice and not purchasing users like Microsoft does.

It was nice knowing you RIM.

grenade because they're pulling the self destruct pin much like many others who felt it was better to team with Microsoft and that monopoly money than make the right choice for the customers sake. There'll probably be a little financial blip as the MS$ comes in and then the mass exodus and payouts for RIM executives and management.