Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 10th Feb 2012 00:09 UTC, submitted by moondevil
As you all know, Windows 8 will be the first release of Windows NT which supports the ARM architecture. Microsoft hasn't been particularly forthcoming about this new Windows variant, but that's changing today. The company has posted a long and in-depth blog post about Windows 8 on ARM.
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RE[2]: Logical disconnect...
by glarepate on Fri 10th Feb 2012 16:20
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by bolomkxxviii on Fri 10th Feb 2012 19:38
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RE[2]: Logical disconnect...
by Moredhas on Fri 10th Feb 2012 20:06
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If they understand that you can't watch a foreign movie without subtitles, unless you know the language, I'm sure they can grasp that the CPU is different. The way I explain to my customers the reason MS Office won't run on the Android tablets we sell is very much the idiot's interpretation of a CPU. I tell them it's basically like an abacus, but with more than one bar for the beads to zip along. A different kind of CPU may have a different number of bars in a different arrangement, and instructions for one will make no sense at all to another. They seem to get that. Strangely, it's not my least knowlegable customers who have a problem with it. They accept what they don't understand, and all I need to say is "it's a different type of CPU, and one can't run things written for another". It's the people who know just about as much, but have gleaned a few buzzwords that are the problem, because they clearly know everything there is to know.
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by pgeorgi on Sun 12th Feb 2012 16:57
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Historical blindness... (and of very recent history)
by zima on Fri 17th Feb 2012 23:35
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The only reason to want Windows on a tablet, over Android or iOS, is for the familiar desktop, and the flexibility of installing whatever you damn well please.
We had such Windows tablets for quite some time. They... didn't really took of.
And nearby you write...
If they understand that you can't watch a foreign movie without subtitles, unless you know the language, I'm sure they can grasp that the CPU is different.
Yeah, and making out of that difference the main issue, main cause of avoidance; they can just not buy it - there were (too many) examples of people avoiding even AMD due to "different CPU"...
(really, even "obvious" OS differences were often enough to return unwanted in the end purchases; MS maintaining the same trademark for this product, Windows, will quite possibly prove unfortunate)
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 23:35 UTC, submitted by kragil
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Linked by MOS6510 on 05/17/13 22:22 UTC
"It is good for programmers to understand what goes on inside a processor. The CPU is at the heart of our career. What goes on inside the CPU? How long does it take for one instruction to run? What does it mean when a new CPU has a 12-stage pipeline, or 18-stage pipeline, or even a 'deep' 31-stage pipeline? Programs generally treat the CPU as a black box. Instructions go into the box in order, instructions come out of the box in order, and some processing magic happens inside. As a programmer, it is useful to learn what happens inside the box. This is especially true if you will be working on tasks like program optimization. If you don't know what is going on inside the CPU, how can you optimize for it? This article is about what goes on inside the x86 processor's deep pipeline."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 22:15 UTC, submitted by Tom
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Herpa derp! I'mma port my company's OS and modify it so customers can use it on their tablets, and at the same time remove the entire point of running Windows! Yeah! Best. Plan. Evar.
I'm fully aware x86 apps won't run on an ARM processor, but really, restricting Windows to just the app store is possibly the stupidest thing they could have done, in terms of marketing the device to the end users. The only reason to want Windows on a tablet, over Android or iOS, is for the familiar desktop, and the flexibility of installing whatever you damn well please.