One man. Closing, all the windows.
“Microsoft has sold 40 million licenses of the Windows 8 OS since its launch a month ago.”
see Microsoft: 40 million Windows 8 licenses sold | ITworld.
OK, but who bought them? The OEMs? How long will they keep doing that if retailers cannot sell them except at fire-sale prices? OEMs are tired of being M$’s bagmen. This is the last straw. $billions are being tied up in inventory that no one wants.
I hope this is not right. Life is getting harder all the time but the “death-clock” tells me I have to live for decades longer. Life just isn’t fair…
Some people do strange things with GNU/Linux but they do make the world a better place.
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“A new government tender is expected by January 2013 for five million units, with "up to a million" units targeted by March, according to Datawind chief executive Suneet Tuli. Ministers may appoint multiple suppliers for this next order.”
see BBC News – Tablet computer: Aakash upgrade in India 'well received'.
It took a little time but the small and really cheap tablet PC intended for 220 million students finally seems ready. The specs are competitive and the price is right at $21 after subsidies. Five million units next year will make a dent in the Digital Divide in India. It should do wonders for Indian education, government and economy as well. Within a few years some of these users will be in a position to choose and this may well plant a seed for FLOSS generally.
“The Godson-3B1500 has 1.14 billion transistors, with a lot of the extra ones coming from the doubling-up of the L3 cache memory to 8MB, shared across those eight cores. The Chinese chip runs the MIPS64 instruction set and is absolutely compatible with Linux.”
see China to strut eight-core Godson-3B MIPS chip in early 2013 • The Register.
So, there you have it. China could well be free of Wintel within a few years. This CPU is sufficiently powerful for most tasks and is easy on the watts. They will have economy of scale even in their domestic market and GNU/Linux will run on the thing. What more do they need? Programmers? They have plenty, and they are looking for work.
For everything else they can use Android or GNU/Linux on ARM economically.
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