An idea that cound save Microsoft?

Wez C

Would it not be great if you could get a phone with a fully-blown Windows (8.1) installation? I have been craving this for ages, the device would have a micro-HDMI-out and a micro USB port. Then we could plug in a keyboard, monitor and mouse for a fully-blown PC with Visual Studio in your pocket for fixing problems on the go. A few mods to the software to enable easy calling and 3G and hey presto "Windows Blow Me". Pleeeeaaase!

Lost User

Actually I want it one step further. I want to tap my phone and see any Monitors or TVs on my active network. I am willing to also tap my phone to connect to my keyboard and mouse via bluetooth but I expect an app that I can configure to tap known configurations and label them. e.g. Den Connects to my TV Office Connects to my monitor Connects to my mouse Connects to my keyboard Connects to my printer etc Work Connects to same stuff above (Office), but different IDs etc. On top of this, I would say that the GPUs should be for the most part relocated outside of the device and strapped to the display device. It seems like the physical dependency is there even if you have removed it. For example, I could have the most insane graphics card that can output 4k to 2 different displays. Well, if I do not have 2 different 4K displays it is pretty freaking pointless. If my display is 720p than that is all my GPU needs to handle. The GPUs will need to have an internal radio would be my guess as the bottleneck will not just be in the wireless coms but in the handler of it. In other words, do not piggy back on the TVs coms for graphics. Let if have a direct line to the CPU.

Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet. The interesting thing about software is it can not reproduce, until it can.

Super Lloyd

Windows 9?

My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!

Marc Clifton

Member 11038460 wrote:

Would it not be great if you could get a phone with a fully-blown Windows (8.1) installation?

Yeah, it's called a Beaglebone Black with Ubuntu or Debian and I've seen someone put together a cell phone cape for the thing, I think! As for not having VS on a BBB, I'd rather just remote in to my main computer from my BBB! Windows 8.1? Gross. I will never buy a Windows phone (or an Apple phone.) Guess that leaves me with Android. Marc

Automating Semantic Mapping of a Document With Natural Language Processing

Chris Maunder

Well - that's kinda of the idea. Eventually. Apple are approaching it bottom up, windows top down (a terrible idea given their infrastructure), and Linux - well, they just approach it head on.

cheers Chris Maunder

Ranjan D

May be they should target Raspberry Pi Model B and sell it off for $39.95 :laugh:

Lost User

An idea that could save Microsoft?

Peter Wasser "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell

Nagy Vilmos

Any idea...

M dHatter

'Head' could be used as another name for bathroom or urinal. :-D

               .'\\   /\`.
             .'.-.\`-'.-.\`.
        ...\_:   .-. .-.   :\_...
      .'    '-.(o ) (o ).-'    \`.
     :  \_    \_ \_\`~(\_)~\`\_ \_    \_  :
    :  /:   ' .-=\_   \_=-. \`   ;\\  :
    :   :|-..\_  '     \`  \_..-|:   :
     :   \`:| |\`:-:-.-:-:'| |:'   :
      \`.   \`.| | | | | | |.'   .'
        \`.   \`-:\_| | |\_:-'   .'
          \`-.\_   \`\`\`\`    \_.-'
              \`\`-------'/xml>

OriginalGriff

This is Microsoft, remember? So move the decimal point one place to the right and it'll overheat. They aren't good with hardware, never have been...

You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)

Shao Voon Wong

Their board of directors idea was to change the CEO.

NPowDev

well... maybe doing more Big-hard work on the Micro-soft things! ;)

Westley Cooper Thorn

BOOM :)

User 10243678

windows 8.1 on a phone, thats a crap idea. did Amstrad not try computer phones, they went out of business. What a great idea, yep Microsoft should do it. I have a suggestion for Microsoft try finishing something before you release it, make sure it works first, remember you dont build hardware so stop preventing hardware manufacturers from writing compatible drivers - try helping them. When a tile OS screen looks crap on a desktop try listening to your customers. In fact just try and make something simple that works out of the box. 99% of your customers are not programmers. the day will come when you can bang any old OS into a machine and it will run plus run any one else's applications then the monopoly of Microsoft is over. Now that's an idea.

Lost User

MS will never try to destroy it's desktop market.

David ONeil

An idea that could save Microsoft: Listen to your customers.

My CodeProject Articles :: Our forgotten astronomic heritage :: My website.

StatementTerminator

Well, that's the direction they went with Surface, and it was a disaster. It's hard to make one device that can adapt to both mobile and desktop environments well. I don't think that I'd want to use VS on a phone anyway. MS will be fine. They're hurting right now due to a marketing guy's decision to kill the Windows desktop platform, but once Windows 9 comes out they'll be in good shape again. If they sell it at a reasonable price (and they should), then it will sell like hotcakes. Most Windows desktop users are hanging on to Windows 7 and waiting for a newer version of that, which should be Windows 9. This includes IT departments, MS's most important customers, who largely skipped Windows 8. There's a lot of pent-up demand out there. MS just isn't good at the consumer side, they'll never be Apple, I hope they understand that now. They lost on MP3 players, phones, tablets, search engines, etc. They need to stick to what they do best: boring productivity tools for getting work done.

thund3rstruck

So instead of texting emoticons while driving I can debug post-build events or analyze code coverage. What could be better than being tethered to my employer beyond the 14 hours a day they are already getting out of me? ;)

ssadler

Heh, sounds like VS would be running mighty slow. The few times I've used it (I'm a firmware engineer) on my work desktop the IDE was not very quick. Running something like VS or Eclipse on a constrained device like a phone sounds painful to me.

Middle Manager

15 hours. ...Oh, you mean better from your perspective ;)