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Re:Google's "Desktop View" Turns Android Phones into Pocket PCs by pcchristie on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @09:06PM (#43979639)
Since Windows has started this iteration of their move to ARM, I wondered if Microsoft would be the first to do this properly, by building an adaptable/mobile Desktop/UX to Windows 12 (or 13), pumping up the Microsoft Store, and then relaunching the Windows (Surface, I guess) Phone with full fat Windows on it.

In a way it's the same strategy that Nintendo used to re-gain a strong position in gaming (including the lucrative Home Console market where they'd fallen to a distant last place) - drafting their dominance in Handheld into Home Console by merging the two.

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Re:Google's "Desktop View" Turns Android Phones into Pocket PCs by stackskipton on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @04:02AM (#43982084)
Windows Phone had this ability, it was called Continuum: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/de...
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Re:Google's "Desktop View" Turns Android Phones into Pocket PCs by wkat4242 on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @08:46AM (#43983867)
Also Ubuntu phone had it and it worked well. Better than on the phone itself due to lack of good small-screen-capable software.
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