Ever since I’ve seen those video’s I’ve been getting very impatient in terms of news.
I don’t know enough about Microsoft’s advertising strategy to comment on it, because I very rarely give Microsoft any notice (Especially when you consider that I work in an office of Apple Lovers and spend my time following Open Source fanatics on Twitter), so whether these videos are just advertising techniques or not, I can’t say.
But the Courier is grabbing my attention, so rather than trawl the web everyday for new information I set off a Google Alerts Feed to let me know of new Courier info, and to be honest, I wish I hadn’t, because it get’s filled with utter rubbish.
So here’s my take on everything Microsoft is currently doing, what I think the Courier is (vaporware or not?) and finally what happens next.
I just read an article over at linux insider http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/67982.html and it basically discusses the confusion between Android and Chrome OS – My question is, what confusion?
Android in my eyes has always been a mobile phone platform, now I admit mobile phones, smart phones, smart books, its all blurring a bit so my definition of what should be running Android – a device which can be used for making phone calls, has a small screen making full aplications difficult to use, processor and memory (RAM) is limited. Something along those sort of lines. Or devices that don’t necessarily require a full blown OS, something more light weight.
I read an artical a short while ago about Microsofts plans for Windows 7 and notebooks, it explained how they intend to give a version of the operating system that can run a certain number of applications at one time and if more is required they could upgrade. My initial thought of this was it wouldn’t happen, Microsoft would realise it’s a bad idea and not move forward with it.
However another article cropped up and apparently it’s called Windows 7 Starter, which will only be able to run 3 applications and have some of the limited features of Windows 7. Now I don’t have a problems with the concept of a cut down version of Windows 7, it makes perfect sense because lets face any weight we can cut out of the Windows OS would be a great idea to save resources on the netbook.
