Quote:One obvious solution is to eliminate the gap between Windows and Android-give the people their favorite game app on their desktop right next to Microsoft Office! Not surprisingly, several options that do just that are emerging as PC manufacturers work to extend the Android experience to the PC.
AMD is supporting that effort through its collaboration with BlueStacks, who started by creating a very popular Android app player for Windows. Now, through this collaboration with AMD, they are poised to deliver a completely virtualized Android environment that runs all of the most popular Android entertainment, content consumption and productivity apps right within the Windows desktop.
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We partnered with @bluestacksinc to bring users the complete @Android OS experience on your favorite devices: http://bit.ly/1loqkym
Because id estimate 99% of x86 apps were made to be used with a physical keyboard and mouse. With bluestacks you can theoretically turn any windows device into an android device with not additional support from the original manufacturer. Its not the greatest news, but it hopefully means faster/better development of a potentially extremely useful app.
No, but you're locked into Windows. THere's a lot of stuff you just can't do in Linux or Android because it doesn't get enough support. I still have no native Photoshop and the amount of Steam games you get are small compared to what you get with Windows. Not to mention everything has to be in OpenGL now.
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Because AMD are doing it lol. The nvidia guys would much rather see company's wasting time drawing crop circles in stupid publicity stunts rather than actually releasing things lol.
I'm all for moving away from windows to linux, i really do hope it gains a tremendous amount of support to the point that it can replace windows. But isn't that different from what this article is about? It's relevant in a way, but different, is it not?Originally Posted by sdlvx
No, but you're locked into Windows. THere's a lot of stuff you just can't do in Linux or Android because it doesn't get enough support. I still have no native Photoshop and the amount of Steam games you get are small compared to what you get with Windows. Not to mention everything has to be in OpenGL now.
Windows is where it is right now not because it's good (it's not bad either), but because of the fact that there's so much lock in. No one ever makes a big deal out of it but Microsoft has everyone locked down with DirectX to the point where if you want to play serious games you have to use Windows.
Mantle is going to help with that a lot.
But the fact that Intel just got done with their CES announcement and had pictures of Android and even directly promoted their Edison box running Linux is huge. AMD isn't the only one bailing on Windows.
I still think that it'd take a few years at least for any sort of big ripples to show up, because people really hate changing from something very familiar, but it will happen. But the fact that Windows is losing support from basically all the major x86 players (Nvidia with Tegra K1, Intel pushing Linux/Android, AMD Mantle/Linux/Android)
It is happening whether you want to admit it or not. The time of AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and OEMs bending over backwards to get good Windows licensing deals are gone.
Uhhhhh............... well.........................nope got nothing.
And AMD handing out potato chips at the Intel conference 4 months ago wasn't a stupid publicity stunt?