Why would they need a new OS? When Microsoft introduced the concept in 2002, they simply added the features into XP.
*kaff* 1992.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
I used one of the early tablet/laptop convertible computers. Underpowered, underwhelming. The hybrid tablet/laptop has a thirty year history of failure. Microsoft kept trying it and kept failiing. A device that you can hold comfortably in your hand will never be the same device you want to sit in front of for hours doing work. Either the device will be too big to hold or the screen will be too small to work at for long periods. Since you're going to have different hardware anyway, you might as well have separate OSes and interfaces that take direct advantage of the hardware differences.
Thinking about Card's Hierarchy of Foreigness will give you an idea what these people are trying to accomplish.
http://ansible.wikia.com/wiki/...
They are basically trying to have chimps and dolphins reclassified as raman, not as humans, not as djur. Raman don't get citizen rights such as voting, but the non-state related parts of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ought to apply to them as persons.
"Teleportation must be invented. If we don't invent teleportation, China will throw nuclear bomb everywhere. Especially now everyone can live forever."
-- Alex Chiu
But what if the Chinese themselves invent teleportation? What then?!
... the fix may already be in. Hard to believe that it's been ten years.
Stellar rays prove fibbing never pays. Embezzlement is another matter.