Windows 10 Ported To OnePlus 6T Smartphone (androidpolice.com) 62
An anonymous reader shares a report: Qualcomm has been building laptop processors for a while now, designed for always-on Windows 10 ultraportables. Now that an ARM version of Windows 10 is widely available and works with Snapdragon processors, the gates have opened for porting the operating system to smartphones. @NTAuthority on Twitter already demoed Windows 10 on a Pixel 3 XL, but now they have ported it to the OnePlus 6T. In a series of tweets and replies, NTAuthority showed off the touchscreen working, with many applications (including Google Chrome) fully functional. The most impressive demo was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 running on the phone, using Windows' built-in x86 emulation compatibility layer.
I would not buy/use (Score:2, Flamebait)
Just my 2 cents
Show us on the doll... (Score:1)
...where Clippy and Microsoft Bob touched you.
Re: (Score:2)
WalMart was dumping Windows phones a few years ago, a $100 Nokia for $19.95 I bought one to play around with and truthfully it was pretty nice. For a low end phone the interface was responsive and the few available apps ran just fine. Long term I don't know how they held up but it was nicer than a lot of cheap Android phones.
Why? (Score:2)
Really WHY!
Great news (Score:2)
As much as Microsoft earned it's negative reputation among some folks, the alternative-- Google only-- is far worse. Microsoft only got out of hand when they monopolized. Competition is the antiseptic. Hopefully google can be rescued from evil.
Re: (Score:3)
As sir edmund hilary said: "Because it was there".
Hackers like to hack.
Remember the demoscene, or doom runing on the touchbar, or linux on a toaster?
The guys doing this earn an inherent satisfaction of being able to "Just do it".
Hopefully Intel won't follow through on threats (Score:3)
I hope that Intel doesn't go and try to screw this up by suing like they threatened to.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/09/intel_sends_arm_a_shot_across_bow/ [theregister.co.uk]
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3011638/qualcomm-responds-to-intels-rant-about-x86-emulation-on-arm [theinquirer.net]
Re: (Score:2)
Turns out, even Intel has been emulating x86 for the past 24 years.
So... a Windows Phone? (Score:3)
So they basically re-invented the Windows Phone? How well did that go before?
They didn't get the memo (Score:1)
But doesn't OnePlus also "spy" on users as well? (Score:2)
Who wins that race? Or is it being joined together?
See https://www.howtogeek.com/3401... [howtogeek.com] and https://elgan.com/blog/why-i-d... [elgan.com]
So, now we get Microsoft's public telemetry info being sucked from Windows 10 machines or phone-based platforms? http://investmentwatchblog.com... [investmentwatchblog.com] which includes:
- Typed text on keyboard sent every 30 minutes
- Transmits anything you say into a microphone
- Transcripts of things you say while using Cortana
- Index of all media files on your computer
- When your webcam is first enabled,
All very pointless (Score:2)
BootCamp on ARM Macs (Score:2)
This comes to exemplify what whas obvious for anyone with a modicum of computing knowledge.
If/when the Mac goes to ARM, it would be trivialy easy, from the technical point of view, to develop a version of Windows for ARM for said Mac computers.
The complicated part will be to make the Three companies agree, Namely Apple (to develop ARM bootcamp and ARM Windows Drivers), Microsoft (to adapt the OS if needed), and Qualcomm (they may have some intelectual property on parts of this windows for ARM thing, especia
Dual booting (Score:3)
So does this mean that dual-booting both Windows 10 and Android on a smartphone is realistically possible?
Re: Dual booting (Score:2)
Windows Services for Linux, as originally invisaged, would have run Android inside a container. But that was too hard, so MS partnered with Canonical to get Ubuntu running.
It would then behove this hacker community to get Anbox running inside WSL - Android apps on your Windows phone! :)
Re: (Score:2)
Better question: Would anyone really want to?
yawn (Score:2)
Besides, Windows being ported to X, Y or Z is not new. It's been done for a couple of decades at the very least. It just always sucks. Does this one suck less? Probably not.
LoB