Microsoft founder and current chairman, Bill Gates, has tried time and time again to make tablet computing the center of the digital world. In 2002, the first Tablet PC launched. Sadly, the device never really took off. In 2005, after the Tablet PC failed to achieve what he believed it would, Bill Gates was still adamant about the future of the touch style tablet.
"We need to keep investing, both in the hardware and software side, before it moves into the mainstream... It's not yet in the mainstream. I totally believe in the tablet."
While you might be able to say that, with the iPad, Gates' dream has finally become a reality, Bill Gates, himself, would tend to disagree. Back in February, according to electronista, Gates called the iPad "a nice reader," and nothing more. His feeling was that the iPad still needed to be more like the Tablet PC--including a pen and keyboard. He told BNET the following:
"I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard -- in other words a netbook -- will be the mainstream on that."
This morning, Engadget linked to the video shown below. It's the iPad running Windows 95. While such a concoction still falls short of Gates' overall dream of tablet computing, we're sure he'd have to agree that it's a step in the right direction. One thing's certain--with Windows 95 running on the iPad, the device becomes Apple's first to run Flash.
Source: [url]http://www.neowin.net/news/the-ipad-runs-windows-95-bill-gates-rejoices[/url]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9NeRQjGwfs[/media]
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This was done on the iPhone/iPod Touch but it was laggy as fuck.
Note to the mods: Conflicting sections is why I put this in the main PCHS forum.
[QUOTE=pedroion;21313736]Awesome. Seriously.
Now the iPad has 2x it's original capabilities.[/QUOTE]
2 x 0 is still 0
Totally needed.
Cool, I was thinking how is this posible with arm and then I saw emulator
now i might buy one
Looks pretty awesome but what I am looking forward to is the hp slate.
[QUOTE=TINCAN;21313806]now i might buy one[/QUOTE]
Just wait for the slate hand have windows 7
[QUOTE=JohnEdwards;21313881]Just wait for the slate hand have windows 7[/QUOTE]
Slate hand? Remind me not to piss you off D:
[QUOTE=Panda X;21313906]Slate hand? Remind me not to piss you off D:[/QUOTE]
That would be a killer right hook.
Looks more like a really shitty VNC connection to me, that's going to a computer running win95 in a VM.
But who am I to judge?
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On a side-note; a lag-free VNC app would make me buy the iPad. No question if it could connect to and allow me to use my PC.
I would have tried NT 4 on the ipad, since it has a little more software support, but whatever that guy likes works with me.
Ye totaly awesome
=.= w95 was shit from the begining on
The slate is going to be nice, though you can't forget the classic win95.
[QUOTE=UnseeNova;21314052]Ye totaly awesome
=.= w95 was shit from the begining on[/QUOTE]
Hey, Windows 95 wasn't horrid. Nothing is worse than ME.
ME's the shit.
This combined with the N64 emulator makes me actually want an Ipad
But the Slate is coming... So I will wait
Not very useful but good proof of concept. CE ME NT windows cement.
I would love to see some old DOS-running text adventures - though I can see the keyboard hiding the screen as an issue, unless it was scaled down.
Lol I remember Windows CEMENT. :D
I remember my windows ME.
BSODs everywhere.
Relevant to this thread:
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[QUOTE=IdiotStorm;21313778]2 x 0 is still 0[/QUOTE]
You can still get adobe flash for windows 95...
Did Windows 95 have touch features?
[QUOTE=S.T.O.R.M;21316873]Did Windows 95 have touch features?[/QUOTE]
No. The first Windows to have that was Windows 7. But that doesn't mean you can't not use a touchscreen device to interact with it.
[QUOTE=Wolfie13;21314022]Looks more like a really shitty VNC connection to me, that's going to a computer running win95 in a VM.
But who am I to judge?
[editline]11:04PM[/editline]
On a side-note; a lag-free VNC app would make me buy the iPad. No question if it could connect to and allow me to use my PC.[/QUOTE]
I've tried to run Windows 95 on my PSP once, it's quite similar to what their doing... Except the PSP takes a few minutes to boot up.
[QUOTE=benjgvps;21317401]I've tried to run Windows 95 on my PSP once, it's quite similar to what their doing... Except the PSP takes a few minutes to boot up.[/QUOTE]More like ten minutes, and then it was still completely unusable.
Wait, I see a Bochs BIOS. Bochs was ported to iPhone/iPad? They could run a lightweight Linux distro then, would probably run at a decent speed.
[QUOTE=Panda X;21317329]No. The first Windows to have that was Windows 7. But that doesn't mean you can't not use a touchscreen device to interact with it.[/QUOTE]
Actually I'm pretty sure Windows XP Tablet Edition and Windows Vista had touch capabilities.
My crappy 2004 Toshiba notebook has some basic touch support,like handwriting recognition. Never mind the fact it doesn't really work right.
My HP TX1000 (Tablet PC) Came With Vista, but the touchscreen worked fine in Windows XP as well.
[QUOTE=4rawrs2;21320412]Actually I'm pretty sure Windows XP Tablet Edition and Windows Vista had touch capabilities.[/QUOTE]
About the same as Windows 95.
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