Remember the Dual-OS US$599 Asus Transformer Duet TD300 slated to launch
at the end of March 2014 as I’d reported in my blog article
entitled “US$599
Asus Transformer Duet TD300 to launch at the end of March 2014 - Dual-OS Tablet
Hybrid is the Muppets Most Wanted that gives the Best of Both Worlds, Hannah
Montana Style”?
Well Neither Google or Microsoft like it and are refusing to give support
to any software applications that run on these machines as stated in “Asustek's
Dual-OS Devices Hit a Wall”, published March 14, 2014 12:43 p.m. ET By EVA
DOU And DON CLARK CONNECT, The Wall Street
Journal.
That looks like a non-starter by the end of March 2014 as apparently neither Google or
Microsoft can see eye-to-eye as there is much bad blood between them as
reported in “Asus
Duet’s marriage between Google and Microsoft on the rocks”, published March
14, 2014 By Mike Epstein, Digitaltrends
and “Dual-OS
Asus devices put on indefinite hold, says report”, published March 14, 2014
7:43 AM PDT by Don Reisinger, CNET News.
The Live Dual-OS Dream is dead
- Opportunity for a Kickstarter Project called One Love
So I guess my dream of a Dual-OS pairing between Microsoft Windows 8.1
and Google Chrome on Chromebooks isn’t going to be hugely popular either as
stated in “Forget
dual-booting Android PCs, give us Chromebook-Windows hybrids”, published
Mar 14, 2014 11:32 AM by Brad Chacos, PCWorld.
Worse, the US$1130 Asus Transformer AIO, a Tablet/Desktop Hybrid that already runs Android and Windows 8.1 as
described in “Asus
Transformer AIO review: The all-in-one/tablet hybrid that's hard not to like”,
published 3/06/13, CNET Reviews is also
set to get the kibosh for the same reason, despite Desktops form factor being
unpopular!
Everyone would love a Live Dual-OS matchup with Chrome OS and Microsoft
Windows 8.1 or even the previous matchup between Google Android and Microsoft
Windows 8.1. Too bad the OS makers aren’t too happy about this; competitive
forces mean that there is no love for any kind of union, even if the Enterprise
and Corporate wants it.
In that light, I’m proposing a unique idea for a Kickstarter Project. The
idea would be for a company design and build a custom Software and hardware
package that would enable ANY 2 OS to run simultaneously on the same computer,
smartphone or Tablet.
Not only would you get the same Kickstarter discount for being a
supporter, but they’d make money via providing support for the computers that
they build with this feature. For good measure, call it the One Love Project to
point out that what Linux is all about.
An easy hack for a Kickstarter Project; the Bootloader that would manage
the running and allocation of resources among the various OS running
simultaneously would possibly be based on VMware
Player and Oracle
VM VirtualBox as explained in “Installing
Windows and Linux On the Same Computer”, published Apr 12, 2012 7:47 AM By
Lincoln Spector, PCWorld.
Microsoft and Google aren’t gonna kiss and make up anytime soon. It’s time the Online Community of Developers and Hardware Modders unite to Breathe life into this idea in The Art of the Steal (2014).
Microsoft and Google aren’t gonna kiss and make up anytime soon. It’s time the Online Community of Developers and Hardware Modders unite to Breathe life into this idea in The Art of the Steal (2014).
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