Jonathan Broskey, a former Apple employee who now heads the Army's Apple program, argues that the Unix core at the center of the Mac OS operating system makes it easier to lock down a Mac than a Windows platform.
In essence, Microsoft wants to create a Windows Internet platform with a range of related applications and services that suit it better than non-Windows Internet devices.
But one of the reasons why technology has exploded in the past twenty years is because all developers have had a consistent platform (Windows) to work from.
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The cost-cutting was considered vital to competing with the very low-cost Android smartphones that thrive in countries like China, as Nokia wasn't about to throw a mix of basic Symbian phones and Windows Phones against a pure smartphone platform like Google's.
Moreover, there was far more uncertainty then about the viability of Windows Phone as a mobile platform than there is now.
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Others hope this will be a re-ascendence of command-and-control IT, which favors corporate deployments and the standardization on a single platform, presumably Windows, for better management and control.
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What this software does to overall system performance probably varies from machine to machine based on processor speed and version of Windows, but it is a very innovative marketing strategy to use what many users will consider as a missing feature in Windows 8 as a hook for a revenue producing app platform.
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Ultimately, my view is that Windows 8 will be a great platform and will have many fans.
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"The Windows 8 platform has a clean, elegant, and fluid interface, " he continued.
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Nokia has deep device skills, sees smartphones success as a strategic imperative, and has made a big commitment to the Windows Mobile platform.
"Tablet users seeking an uncompromised experience for both creating and consuming content on the Microsoft Windows 8 platform now have a performance-driven, affordable option with the AMD Z-60 APU, " said Steve Belt, corporate vice president of Ultra-Low Power Products, AMD.
Other new features include a new internet speed diagnostics page, the full release of the new BBC iPlayer Desktop, and a cross-platform manager that will allow Windows, Mac, and Linux users to download BBC programmes, including those in HD.
But for the future of the RT platform, and Windows tablets as a whole, Microsoft has made a definitive decision and they have a strategy to back that decision up.
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It's been debated since the early days of smartphones, when devices such as the Treo based on Palm OS could not handle more than one task at a time, while handsets based on the Windows Mobile platform had the capability.
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It's also an excellent example of just how far the Windows Phone platform has come since its debut a year and a half ago.
The fact is that many consumers may perceive either the existing Windows platform or the new Windows 8 as a liability rather than a strength in a tablet.
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Such support may be unlikely from Nokia, which considered adopting Android as its smartphone platform but selected Windows Phone out of a desire to keep the mobile market competitive.
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For all of OLPC's brilliant bells and whistles, the nonprofit has created a closed platform that isn't capable of using Windows programs--not to mention a constantly evolving ecosystem of Web applications.
Stephen Elop has been struggling to convince the market that his campaign to get Nokia off its "burning platform" and into a profitable future making Windows Phone 7 handsets is on course.
What is not included on any platform (Android, iPhone or Windows) is a built-in QR code scanner.
"There's no doubt what we're looking at here is a platform that's similar to an operating system like Windows or OSX, " says McCrea.
If your server is a Windows box and you're unfamiliar with the vicissitudes of cross-platform networking, you'll have to do a little bit of research on best practices for smooth communications between the two.
As a result, Nokia ended up dropping the Symbian platform in favor of Microsoft's Windows-based devices.
In a recent regulatory filing, Nokia indicated that its transition to Windows Phone as its primary smartphone platform would take two years.
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Without it the windows are blown outwards - putting anyone outside, such as those standing on a platform, at risk from flying glass.
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Skype, the internet communications platform, is being used by hackers to distribute a "worm" that infects Windows PCs.
On a scale of usability, it falls just beneath Windows Phone 8 - the third-place mobile platform it has no choice to but to parry with.
It might not be repeatable as the Windows Phone platform has yet to prove especially popular, but was unequivocally spun as a positive pretty much everywhere it was reported.
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What you're going to see -- if you haven't already -- is Xbox Live connecting up to the PC so your presence -- the ability to send messages and talk, you can even play some of the games that are cross-platform enabled -- that Live asset is going to make gaming on Windows a lot better.
The reference platform will support leading operating systems, such as Windows 8 and Android, with a broadband interface with carrier selection.
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