Users with AMD-powered devices running Windows 7 or 8 will be able to run an Android interface whether in a window on the device’s desktop or in a full-screen mode. Users will be able to employ the settings, configurations and customisations they have on their Android-based smartphones and tablets, have access to apps in the Google Play store and be able to access files stored within the Windows file system while working in the Android environment.
“So what to do in a world where more everyday consumers rely on multiple platforms: a Windows PC at home, a second on their desk in the office or one in the laptop bag on their shoulder as they board a plane; an Android phone on the go and maybe a similar Android-based tablet as they sit on the couch,” Simmons wrote in a post on the AMD blog site. “One obvious solution is to eliminate the gap between Windows and Android – give the people their favourite game app on their desktop right next to Microsoft Office!”
Roger Kay, principal analyst with Endpoint Technologies Associates, said he’s reserving judgement on the initiatives from Intel and AMD until the messaging and the demand for such capabilities become clearer and systems begin rolling out. Kay told eWEEK he generally understands what the chip makers are trying to do, but that he doesn’t generally support the idea of multi-OS systems. There are always concerns, such as what happens when one OS is upgraded? Would that negatively affect how it works with the other OS?
In addition, the chip makers, OS vendors and OEMs need to make sure that everything in the systems and between the operating systems works well, from the messaging to the operation.
“It sounds a little like a kludge, and it would be experienced as a kludge if any of it doesn’t work right,” he said.
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I am surprised you did not mention the most startling comment INTEL made during CEO keynote address In 2014 all INTEL products will be free of conflict minerals. Here are my comments about this part of the speech you left out.
It is amazing that a company of the stature of INTEL and a CEO of the caliber of Krzanich; who must personally sign the Conflict Minerals Free report to the SEC; would be willing accept the exceptional high degree of risk to the reputation of the INTEL brand by claiming their complete supply chain is free of conflict minerals.
Due to the flawed nature of the upstream 3T&G mineral certification program throughout the Great Lakes region of Africa, it is currently impossible for any manufacturer who utilizes the ITRI "bag and tag" mineral certification and the EICC/GeSI Smelter certification programs (which exclusively relies on the ITRI "bag and tag" certification) to certify that their mineral supply chain is free from "conflict minerals" as required by the SEC, unless they are willing to ignore numerous "red flags".
The nature of the resource extraction sector in the Great Lakes Region of Africa where I have worked and been associated with since 2005, is one where the level of corruption and instability will not allow ANY company of the size of INTEL to “certify” with any reasonable level of confidence that their supply chain is free from “conflict minerals” unless they are simply attempting to take a mis-informed marketing approach that ignores the “realities on the ground” to a continuing problem that the international community has not yet even begun to address with independent, verifiable procedures that will withstand the rigors of the required audit based on GAO standards.
Mr. Krzanich is advised to carefully consider personally certifying any Conflict Minerals Report to the SEC that INTEL products are free of 3T and especially the Gold component when in fact it is currently impossible for any U.S. manufacturer to do so with any acceptable level of certainty.