Microsoft's answer to Android: No licencing fees for new mobile OS - Polidicks

[url]http://www.wired.com/2014/04/free-windows/[/url] [img]http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/elop-microsoft-660x428.jpg[/img] Stepen Elop, executive vice president of Nokia and ex-Microsoftie, shows off a Windows Phone. Photo: Eric Risberg/AP [quote]Microsoft took an enormous step forward this morning. It unveiled a free version of its Windows operating system. Revealed at the company’s annual software developer conference in San Francisco, this new OS is called Windows for Internet of Things, and Microsoft will license it for free when hardware makers use the software on devices with screens smaller than nine inches. The door is still open for the company to charge Windows licensing fees for PCs, tablets, and other larger devices, but Microsoft will compete head-on with Android — Google’s free mobile operating system — on smartphones and wearables[/quote] It's a start.. I guess. That name though..

Windows.. IT?

I love my LG G2, but I have no doubt in my mind I'll be taking a closer look at the newest nokias the next time my contract is up

[QUOTE=ief014;44453697]Windows.. IT?[/QUOTE] Windows IoT is what they showed on a slide [editline]4th April 2014[/editline] Also the title and article is misleading. They made Windows RT and Windows Phone 8.1 free for devices with screens smaller than 9 inches. Windows IoT is a new OS designed for devices that wouldn't generally be considered computers phones or tablets. For example they showed a giant piano that you could walk on that was powered by Window IoT. It's essentially an OS for Ardruino/Raspberry Pi like devices. Windows IoT is completely free.

So this will work on ANY android device under 9 inches... any? I doubt it will be "ANY". But i'm sure quite a lot will work.

[QUOTE=Episode;44453887]So this will work on ANY android device under 9 inches... any? I doubt it will be "ANY". But i'm sure quite a lot will work.[/QUOTE] They mean that there's no costs for the manufacturer to use it. So if Samsung wanted to push WP8.1 to all their Android devices, they wouldn't have to pay Microsoft the license fees, for example.

You'd still be better off buying a Nokia windows phone though, all the other manufactures don't do half the shit Nokia does for their customers

[QUOTE=Stents*;44453736] Windows IoT is a new OS designed for devices that wouldn't generally be considered computers phones or tablets. For example they showed a giant piano that you could walk on that was powered by Window IoT. It's essentially an OS for Ardruino/Raspberry Pi like devices. Windows IoT is completely free.[/QUOTE] I assume Windows IoT will be for everything that is appeared to be connected to the internet through the concept of the Internet of Things (which I thought was a retarded name but its growing on me both as a name and a concept)

Windows phone early adopter master race

Windows is probably at the bottom of the list for things companies would consider for "the Internet of things".

Pretty much without the license fee, phone makers can either make phones cheaper or put more features and better hardware, or even both.

why wouldn't they abbreviate it as WIT that's way catchier

[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;44455363]Does this include Windows 8 or just RT? If this includes the whole Windows 8 then RT is pretty much dead due to it's walled garden[/QUOTE] It's separate from other windows releases if I read it correctly.

[QUOTE=Tmaxx;44455223]Windows phone early adopter master race[/QUOTE] If you're an "early adopter" you're permanently stuck on 7.8. Not so much of a master race. Also so far under Satya, Microsoft seems to be doing alright.