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posted by janrinok on Friday March 14 2014, @01:35PM   Printer-friendly
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.

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: 2) by snick on Friday March 14 2014, @04:50PM

    by snick (1408) on Friday March 14 2014, @04:50PM (#16623)

    Once upon a time I had a dual boot linux windows system where I cross mounted the file systems, and configured it so that I could launch the Windows partition under VMWare when linux was running. (required 2 Windows HW configurations: 1 for booting the native to Windows and 1 for booting it under VMWare)

    It was fiddley as all hell, but it actually did work. I just had to remember to unmount the windows partition from the filesystem before booting it as a VM or hilarity would ensue.

    I probably threw away as much time setting that up and walking the tightrope as I did fooling with wine.

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