You can do all sorts of things with the Raspberry Pi — and that’s exactly the point, because it’s a tinkerer’s budget dream machine. Running Windows 7 on it, however? That’s a little trickier, given its ARM underpinnings — but there’s always a way.
It’s only running Windows 7 at the moment, but marry this to Windows 8, and would you even need a tablet?
Giz AU last bumped into Sydney-based Evolve III at Computex last year, and it was great to see the team involved in some of the keynotes. Fast forward to 2012, and they’re finally readying the Maestro S: A 10.1-inch (1080p) tablet that feels and acts like Windows 8, complete with swipe gestures: “…that Apple Androidy feel that Windows was missing”.
If it doesn’t have “8″ or “Phone” after it, nobody thinks or cares about Windows anymore. But let’s not forget that Microsoft is still selling a gargantuan tower of operating systems every second — and it matches everything else combined.
OnLive, venerable streamer of PC games to tablets, has a new trick up its sleeve: putting Windows 7 on iPads and Android tablets. Oh really? Thanks a lot, OnLive. There’s officially nowhere left to escape work. And the worst part? It works. Really. Well.
If you want to watch one of the fastest blue screens ever, just watch the video above. It demonstrates a yet-to-be-patch flaw in the 64-bit version of Windows 7 that not only crashes the OS, but compromise the system, according to software security company Secunia.
But will it be a marriage made in heaven, or a marriage of inconvenience? Viewsonic’s previous tablets haven’t been the best; can the ViewPad 10pro redeem it?
OK, it’s not exactly fair to compare Windows 7-based tablets — from a variety of hardware makers — against one single tablet and OS, but it’s not like the Windows tablets are jumping off shelves, either. Still, according to Stategy Analytics, Windows tablets have a 4.6 per cent share to the PlayBook’s 3.3 per cent.
