On Tuesday, 29 September 2020 4:27:46 PM AEST Rohan McLeod wrote:
"......So, the end state this all points at is: New Windows is mostly a Linux kernel, there’s an old-Windows emulation over it, but Edge and the rest of the Windows user-land utilities /don’t use the emulation./ The emulation layer is there for games and other legacy third-party software........."
That's already been done many times. When NT came out it emulated Windows 3.1. OS/2 emulated Windows 3.1 in all modes. The Wine project emulates Windows on Linux. Lots of OSs emulated DOS. Apple emulated M68k on PPC. Later they emulated PPC on Intel and also had fat binaries that could run on both Intel and PPC. Now Apple are about to do something similar with the transition to ARM. Running Windows apps on a Linux kernel is nothing new, no technical challenge for anyone, and certainly not something difficult for MS to do. It would give MS another chance at the phone/tablet market which I'm sure they haven't given up on as well as a chance at supercomputers.
The desktop wars have become quiet because phones and tablets are where it's at. For the desktop it's mostly about web browsing.
Well personally I also find the novelty of reading books and particularly writing essays on mobile devices; somewhat under-whelming !
The vast majority of computer use is not reading books or writing essays. In the 80s there were dedicated wordprocessing PCs. Such things could appear on the market again. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/