Gregory's Server
@thelinuxEXP @snazzyq Well, key to offering a great user experience is 1) Tight hardware & software integration 2) Well-planned, solid OS foundation
1: Microsoft makes the OS, Qualcomm cooperates with Microsoft to optimise that OS for Qualcomm’s next-gen aarch64-based SoCs. It’s not ideal, less control, but (open source!) Android pulled it off and Windows can, too.
2: Why Windows is ready for ARM: Microsoft’s earlier big efforts with Win10 ”Core OS”, WP8/WM10 and WinRT.
@thelinuxEXP @snazzyq As someone who began his personal-computer explorations on Windows 3.10 and MSDOS (and a tiny bit of MacOS 7.6 or 8.0), I know Windows is a behemoth, with layers upon layers of compatibility and only very little beard trimmed. This makes the software offering attractive, but just like the 40-year old X11 server, there comes a point when it’s time to rethink your future. Personally I enjoyed the Win10X virtualisation strategy, but that got scrapped.