On Tuesday 17 January 2012 17:54:07 Mehul Ved wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.muktware.com/news/3217/did-microsoft-just-kill-ubuntu-tablets > > > > There is no doubt that Canonical is looking at the ARM based hardware for > > its tablets. But Microsoft seemed to have nipped Ubuntu's Tablet in the > > bud. The company tweaked its Windows Hardware Certification Requirements > > to effectively ban most alternative operating systems on ARM-based > > devices that ship with Windows 8. > > > >From the above statement, as I read it, only hardware that comes > > pre-installed with Windows will have this problem. If so, why would > one want to buy a tablet pre-installed with Windows if one intends to > run Ubuntu on it, in the first place. > > And since Android, iOS and Linux still form majority of ARM based > devices, I wonder if any manufacturer would be brave(stupid?) enough > to lock these OS's out.
The mfgrs are oem. The marketers are the usual suspects like Dell, Sony etc. the reason they do so, is M$ spends lots of money on promotion. Look at any M$ ad. It always has several of these marketers. It also heavily subsidises the marketers ads to insert the blurb runs best on windoze. > > If that is so, let manufacturers sell devices with pre-installed > Windows, which have this feature. You would anyway not want to pay > MS-tax or do you like to? But the game has changed quite a bit. M$ was never a hardware player. With the acquisition of nokia, they are now competitors to all the mobile device makers. But so is Google with motorola. So we have a rather dangerous situation between one very bad company and another who might just turn coat, should it prove profitable enough. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
