Comments by "Scott Franco" (@scottfranco1962) on "TechAltar" channel.

  1. Microsoft could save themselves, eliminate a lot of their costs, and emulate the Mac/Apple model in less than a year by one simple step. Port their GUI on top of a Linux or BSD kernel. The result would still run windows programs, look like windows, remove a major cost item from Microsoft in one step, maintaining their own kernel and drivers. X windows, even Wayland, would be considered less high tech than the Windows GUI layer, and Windows would be as portable as Linux/BSD even if they keep the source code proprietary. Windows does not rely that much on special features of its NT kernel any more than X does. It pushes files, it runs tasking, it has a driver model. Linux even supports the NT filesystem. With a couple of API layers over Linux, they could park the majority of Windows GUI code over the kernel. The Windows GUI could take over the video subsystem the same way it does now.
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  2. Microsoft "loves open source"? So where do I download the open source version of Windows? Hello?
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  3. When they start talking about pixels saving power by borrowing it from another dimension, I will know I have been on this planet too long.
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  4. Does not matter how good a Windows laptop is. At the end of the day, it has Windows on it.
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  5. I don't care if they PAY YOU to install Windows. Its a crappy slow system with frequent infections that goes to sleep without asking while trying to install updates to itself. I can get a FREE system with all the source code available, that does anything windows can do, and has none of the problems. And I am using it now while typing this. Its called Linux.
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  6. A good overview, but I would add that vr/ar sidesteps most of these issues. You get AR by having a camera on the outside and the computer just mixes the outside view into the vr projection. This means you are focusing only on the inside of the vr headset.
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  7. Sounds like a Linux distro to me...
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