Re: Do Microsoft?sCopilot+ PCs Require Linux?

rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

On Fri, 24 May 2024 03:41:48 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On 24 May 2024 03:05:54 GMT, rbowman wrote:
 

... Microsoft inherited the safe choice crown.  The same process is at
work in the consumer world too.

 
Never worked for mobile devices, though.

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They must have had one of those fully automatic black rifles to shoot
themselves in the foot so many times. The Pocket PC did okay for
enterprises but the Palm was cheaper and arguably better. Then the Windows
Phone 7 attempt wasn't compatible. Leaning from their mistakes the Phone 8
wasn't compatible with the 7. The Metro fiasco didn't help. UWP was meant
with skepticism by developers who had been burned by Microsoft's
fickleness before.
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I don't know if all the blame can be laid on Ballmer but he didn't help
any.
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https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-developers-can-now-bring-their-winui-3-apps-ios-android-macos-and-web
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I don't know how well that attempt is going.

Microsoft does better when they buy the technology... and keep their grubby
mitts off of it.

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