First there was Windows 95 on an iPad. People cringed, but apparently they did not cringe enough, as someone else has managed to get Windows XP up and running on an iPad. Macheads, avert thy eyes!
The “someone” in this case is Dave Soble, CEO of Evolve Technologies. He was crowing about his “accomplishment” on the Facebook late last week, and the fruits of his labour here:
But how? VMWare Connectwise, to be precise, and it only took about five minutes, Soble said. Five easy minutes to complete a hack that will no doubt cause the spontaneous combustion of any and all Apple lovers in your immediate vicinity. [ChannelWeb]
Dre
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 6:58 AMI think most people don’t understand he is not actually running XP he is running a VMWARE thin client which is hosted on a remote server.
You can already do something similar to this with remote desktop and VNC on iPhone / iPad / iwhatevr
Luke Santillo
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 10:16 PMExcactly right,you should just be able to use Log Me In website Through the Ipad’s browser and control your PC Through that.
http://www.logmein.com
The Joker
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 10:32 PMThe police will be round to confiscate it shortly to check if it’s a camouflaged PC..!!