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on Friday March 14 2014, @01:35PM
from the is-that-the-sound-of-desperation-that-I-hear dept.
from the is-that-the-sound-of-desperation-that-I-hear dept.
skullz writes:
"Hot on the heels of Microsoft easing up access to the Windows Phone OS are rumors of dual Windows / Android phones, able to boot into either OS.
- Huawei Confirms Dual-OS Android-Windows Smartphone
- Huawei Might Launch Dual-OS Android-Windows Phone Handsets Too
The narrative so far is Android for personal use, Windows for BYOD to the office. I can see a company locking down a Windows Phone install so it can connect to Exchange and the company wifi but what would the two OSs share? Contacts and pictures? Would a bit of malware on one OS be isolated from the other?
It used to be that you would dual boot your Windows box with Linux, now that trend has reversed itself for your mobile. How far we have come."
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday March 14 2014, @02:18PM
Care to share why you "gave up" dual-booting on a laptop? And if you ever found a replacement situation that works for you? And what did you do that was so critical that you had to switch OS's immediately and couldn't wait the 60 or so seconds to shut down and reboot? Not trying to be a smartass, genuinely curious.
Sure, rebooting is inconvenient, but it beats the hell out of lugging around 2 devices or having to restart your work after your VM bugs out because it can't handle your high-performance Windows software.
Hell, I dual-booted on my ancient Dell laptop (Windows for pirated^W audio recording software and soft synths, Linux for everything else) and encountered no complications right up until the laptop died.
(Score: 2, Informative) by dast on Friday March 14 2014, @02:28PM
I think he did say why. VMWare. Windows XP and 7 both run pretty well under a Linux host OS. I was able to ditch my Windows partition on my development workstation, even though I was contracting for a client who worked only in Windows (embedded work with Windows Mobile). I actually used VirtualBox, as it supported all of the various, esoteric hardware I had to use. It was a beautiful setup. No need to dual boot anymore...
(Score: 2) by snick on Friday March 14 2014, @04:42PM
The fact that _all_ solutions for cross filesystem access drooled on themselves as soon as I had to deal with files larger than 2G.
Right now I'm running a Mac with a Windows 8 VM that has access to the host FS (don't ask)
Switching OS is a simple matter of switching in and out of the VM, so when tasks come up where I have to be here or there I can go back and forth in a second. And yeah I know that this loads my box more heavily than dual boot, but the time it saves over the lifetime of the laptop justifies the cost of the beefier system needed to support it.