TFA itself links to a better FA at: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9244953/Microsoft_to_face_computer_makers_rebellion_at_CES

This original source article includes a discussion of the architecture involved - and the person they interviewed admits he hasn't seen it in action, and has no idea how it works. He suggests it could be one of three approaches - dual boot, an Android API within Windows (somewhat akin to Bluestacks), or a VM running within Windows. I would add a fourth - a hypervisor, permitting both OSes to run concurrently as VMs - though that seems unlikely, as it would require the OEMs to license Windows differently, as I understand it.

Interesting times. I agree with the commenters who say MS should be afraid of this - Google has taken its sweet time maturing Android into a desktop-supporting experience, but it's close, and "Android PCs" are already in the pipeline to take advantage of it. Any familiarization for the "unwashed masses" with what it feels like to simply run Android as your laptop/desktop OS has to be viewed by MS as, well, "crossing the streams" bad.

Sounds like they've built an Android API implementation library for Windows ... i.e., Windows-based Wine for Android.

It'd actually be interesting to see if the tech involved was open and cross-platform, so we could port it to Linux.

Nothing the judges said indicates that they may side with Oracle on the overall issue (there was back and forth, and teasers in both directions on that). The one clear indication given was that the judges lean toward saying that if they overturn Alsup on APIs being copyrightable, they agreed with Oracle that there's not a need for another jury trial.

NO executive management with the high-quality management training that is standard within MS would do anything at all like make statements to destroy the market share of their current market-leading product line! Isn't that called the Ratner Effect? The only thing even comparable would be for someone to fall prey to the Osborne Effect, and of course no one with a background in management at Microsoft would ever ... oh wait a minute ...

Haven't evaluated in over a year, but a stark finding from that timeframe was that making Puppet or Chef handle Windows was a force-fit, at the very least, and pretty crude. Have things advanced? How well do any of these solutions manage the byzantine complexity that is Windows CM?

Puppet, Chef, yadda yadda - the REAL action is in the META tools for automating all the Puppet and Chef etc. systems worldwide. PuppetMaster (pulls all the Puppet's strings), GordonRamsey (yells at all the Chefs out there). Let's not kid ourselves, THAT'S where Skynet is going to emerge.

However, remember that any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.

If their OS work was terrible, then why did the N9 win design awards, and receive overwhelmingly positive reviews? Agreed that Symbian was showing its age (in spite of not being the dog of a seller that MS reputation mgmt drones imply - it still was growing in sales when Elop axe-murdered it), but MeeGo was in-house as well, and took the N9 to a position that Windows Phones have never matched, in terms of critical acclaim.

If you listen to the video, it was clear "Sweetie" was an avatar - the pedophiles involved asked "her" to turn on her webcam. The avatar's near-lifelikeness may have played some role in attracting attention initially (the writeup/video don't say), but there's no indication any of the accessors thought it was really her.

Yes, let's use Wikipedia accesses as our measure - because of course there are no major markets where that's irrelevant. Heck, more Italians visit Wikipedia than Chinese. And let's pretend that all those Samsung S4/S3/Note3 handsets were just shipped, not sold. Yeah, that's dealing honestly with the evidence. Sheesh. Get over it, Android's winning everywhere but the US.

... if the temperature briefly rises too quickly, it may be necessary to let the water cool before resuming the gradual increase in temperature.

Oh, snap!

Get ready for the torrent of people who've never dealt with gov't contracting who are just so sure they could do it better. Dunning-Krueger in the house, like usual on /.

They secretly run all of Facebook on Windows firesale Surface devices, but moved user profiles/timelines to a separate volume ... and upgraded to Windows 8.1 over the weekend.

Coincidence that this happens on the same day Ed Bott blogs about this exact issue with Win8.1? I don't think so ...

Java must be dying - when's the last time you saw an applet? Let's ignore that it's hugely popular on servers, for enterprise development.