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getting back to the thread topic for a second, anyone seen or could provide an in-depth review of this?
And getting back to the topic currently at hand, as a longtime linux user knowing about the SCO vs (everyone using Linux) lawsuits debacle, I'm somewhat skeptical of Microsoft. |
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Sundar Pichai probably wakes up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat from some awful takeover nightmare.
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I mean, SCO's been in a lawsuit with IBM, who was initially nudged in that direction by Microsoft, since 2003.
Granted, the only reason it's still going on is it needs to be resolved so the creditors can pick the meat off SCO's corpse's bones. Last edited by binaryhermit; 06-03-2019 at 05:49 PM. Reason: I messed up and said SCO was in a lawsuit with SCO |
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in the meantime, there's quite a few video reviews on youtube. Just run a search there. The one I linked above is from a long established channel that uses a common methodology for everything from tablets to laptops and other gizmos. If nothing else, if you look at his other tablet reviews you can see how the Walmart tablet stacks up. |
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People forget that before Ballmer, MS supported Atari, Commodore, Apple, CP/M, XENIX (they were the largest Unix vendor on x86 for ages), or that they supported MSDOS on non-clones until that market dried up. A lot of the early Mac GUI conventions were features Apple lifted off MS WORD for the Mac in the pre-release days. (It was baked into the SDK licensing that they could. That licensing agreement was one of the reasons Apple lost the GUI lawsuit against MS.) MS under Gates was all about getting their software everywhere. Anybody remember their MSX gaming platform of the 80's? It was XBOX before XBOX. Too early for the market. http://www.davevoyles.com/2015/10/21...e-the-msx-was/ Gates even talked to Sun about getting OFFICE on Solaris. When MacNeally realized he couldn't afford the cost he tried to hijack the Windows16 APIs with WABI, trying to get that certified as an international standard to take control away from MS. Which is where the Windows vs Unix hostility started. Until then the two coexisted nicely. Windows everywhere was Ballmer, not MS. In that sense, the "New" MS is really Classic MS. |
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I think you've cherry picked some data points....but yes, today's Msft is not "windows windows windows". If anything it's "Azure, Azure, Azure" followed by "mobile, mobile, mobile" (iOS and Android).
Practically...for the normal folk....Msft has come up with a fantastic, cross platform set of mobile apps and services. |
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Actually it's not the launcher you want to replace to get rid of the Walmart button. ADB is your friend. No root required, just ADB on your pc/mac and developer mode and USB debugging enabled on your tablet. The app method worked for me. I'm glad it did as the walmart button was just a nuisance. |
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Battery life does tend to be the biggest issue with low-end tablets. If they're actually advertising 5h, you can probably count on it being 3-4h in real-world usage, and that'll be down to 2h in a couple of years' time as the battery ages. Hopeless!
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