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Asus dumps Windows for its tablet
TAIWANESE ELECTRONICS HOUSE Asustek has ditched Windows in favour of Google's Android operating system on its Eeepad tablet.
The 10-inch Eeepad was first demonstrated at this year's Computex show running an embedded version of Windows 7. It seems, however, that the firm doesn't want its tablet device saddled with Microsoft's bloated operating system, so instead it is opting for the Linux based Android operating system.
Asustek has decided that it will wait for Google to release Android 3.0, known as Gingerbread, before it will launch the Eeepad into the wild. Currently Android 3.0 is slated for release at the end of this year, so we expect that the Eeepad will follow shortly thereafter.
Microsoft tried to put on a good show at this year's Computex by getting a number of vendors to run its cut-down Windows Embedded Compact 7 operating system on their tablets. The operating system is aimed at limited functionality devices such as keyboard-less tablet computers, though it seems that Asustek wanted a little more in the way of security and usability.
Google's Android operating system has emerged as the primary competitor to Apple's Iphone OS in smartphones, however it has yet to make the same splash among tablet devices. That is likely to change, as today it was revealed that Lenovo, like Asustek, has decided to load Android on its tablet, instead of any Microsoft OS software.
While Microsoft might have run over Linux with Windows in the netbook market, it looks like the roles have now reversed, with Microsoft's crap OS software starting to look like the prey, dead meat thanks to Google. µ
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Tablet is too big to put it into the pocket, and PC without Windows is worthles.
Tablets without Core i*UM and Windows are pathetic.
I am sure one of the major considerations when choosing Android over Win7 is the shear cost of a Windows license.
I had Windows running on a tablet computer 7 years ago. So what? Eventually we'll get another one worth owning. Windows is a real OS for real hardware anyway. Not half-baked thin hardware that can't handle real tasks.
Dont get me wrong i love android for surfing the net, and other things.
But it seriously lacks a a decent selection of gps app. From navngo, to all the free navigation available for windows, its a no brainer. If i was to get a mobile for now its going to be windows based. I got both an android and a winmo, and i know where windows is lacking. It has not changed much from winmo 2k3, but its also good for compatibility.
Just wanted to point out that Asus is still using Windows 7 on their larger X86 based tablet. The smaller ARM based tablet will be using android instead of Windows embedded. This decision was probably made because Windows embedded lacks the app support that Android has.
I think the tablet market will be divided into X86 based tablets running Windows, and ARM based tablets running Android and Apples iOS. The X86 tablets will have worse battery life, but will be able to double as tablets and laptops.
It will be interesting to see if Intel can get the power consumption of their X86 Atom processors in line with that of ARM based processors, as that's really the key to Windows 7 being successful in the tablet market.
especially considering that true tablets use frail ARM CPU's. That is a significant step down in processing speed, even from an already slow Atom.
WinTel tablet == Fail
All can now see Windows for what it is.
2011 will be the year of mass migration of PCs to Linux.