“8″ Goes “Alpha” at Robert Pogson

M$ has been reported to have shipped a build of “8″ to OEMs. The Register speculates that a beta release will happen in September and “8″ will be out in 2012. That gives Android and ARM a year to frolick in the sunshine of growth. M$ will not be able to freeze this hot market for smart thingies that long. “7″ was at this stage in October 2008 and was released in October 2009 (August RTM).

In the coming year hundreds of millions of smart thingies and a few x86 thingies and servers will ship with Linux. This wave is tens of times larger than the wave of GNU/Linux on netbooks. There will be no putting the geni back in the bottle.

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.