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Re:Could Microsoft release a desktop Linux? by pjmlp on Saturday December 15, 2018 @06:33AM (#18688018)
Amazon has supported Windows VMs since at least 2010, the first time I did a Windows cloud based deployment.

So far it hasn't been that interesting for Windows projects.

Regarding the ever-shrinking desktop market, laptops and 2-1 are "desktops" as well.

Plugging phones into docking stations will never caught on.

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Re:Could Microsoft release a desktop Linux? by sawantuday on Saturday December 15, 2018 @09:11AM (#18688441)
Whats your logic behind that? Current phones with 10gb of ram and 8 cores already surpass average computers. Its only a matter of right user interface.
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Re:Could Microsoft release a desktop Linux? by zozbot123 on Saturday December 15, 2018 @09:25AM (#18688481)
It's not about the hardware (who am I kidding there, of course it is... ARM SoC's, blech). It's about the software side of the equation. Maybe Purism can pull this off, but Android definitely can't (and not for lack of trying, see Samsung DeX), and iOS is going the other way, with macOS getting more iOS-like over time.
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