[Ilugc] [ILUG-BOM] Did Microsoft Just Kill Ubuntu Tablets?
- From: mehul.n.ved@xxxxxxxxx (Mehul Ved)
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:54:07 +0530
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya
<swapnil.bhartiya at gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.muktware.com/news/3217/did-microsoft-just-kill-ubuntu-tablets
There is no doubt that Canonical is looking at the ARM based hardware for
its tablets. But Microsoft seemed to have nipped Ubuntu's Tablet in the bud.
The company tweaked its Windows Hardware Certification Requirements to
effectively ban most alternative operating systems on ARM-based devices that
ship with Windows 8.
From the above statement, as I read it, only hardware that comes
pre-installed with Windows will have this problem. If so, why would
one want to buy a tablet pre-installed with Windows if one intends to
run Ubuntu on it, in the first place.
And since Android, iOS and Linux still form majority of ARM based
devices, I wonder if any manufacturer would be brave(stupid?) enough
to lock these OS's out.
If that is so, let manufacturers sell devices with pre-installed
Windows, which have this feature. You would anyway not want to pay
MS-tax or do you like to?
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With Regards,
Mehul Ved
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