Microsoft: OnLive Desktop violates Windows 7 terms

Wants licensed arrangementTablets News By Chris Smith Thursday at 23:11 UTC | Tell us what you think [ 2 comments ]

Tweet OnLive set to butt heads with Microsoft over Windows 7 app

The mightily-impressive OnLive Desktop app is offering Windows 7 to iPad and Android tablet users without Microsoft's permission, Redmond says.

OnLive Desktop brings virtual access to the Windows 7 desktop, including marquee apps like Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer, over OnLive's cloud servers.

Until now, it was unknown whether the company had Microsoft's blessing. It doesn't, but talks have been opened with a view to rectifying the situation.

Licensed scenario

In a blog post on Thursday, Microsoft's corporate VP of Worldwide Licensing and Pricing, Joe Matz, said users of the app must also have their own Windows license.

"We are actively engaged with OnLive with the hope of bringing them into a properly licensed scenario, and we are committed to seeing this issue is resolved.

"Customers that want to work with partners to have them host Windows 7 in a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure solution on their behalf, can do so when the customer provides the partner licenses through the customer's own agreements with Microsoft."

Microsoft hopes that "partner" will be OnLive, but at the moment that's not the case. This interesting situation is definitely one to keep an eye on.

Via: Wired

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Friday at 09:10 UTC

2. I hope they work something out - it's good to see Microsoft taking a "let's talk" approach instead of immediately trying to shut OnLive down, like certain tech companies I could mention. I've tried OnLive desktop and think it's pretty neat - looks good on my Transformer and works really well with a decent connection.

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Thursday at 23:38 UTC

1. Having to buy a Windows 7 licence will first will completely OnLive.

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Microsoft defends the Windows desktop

Won't compromise too far in PC evolutionOperating systems News By Patrick Goss Monday at 11:01 UTC | Tell us what you think [ 4 comments ]

Tweet Windows 8 - desktop not being axed

Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky has defended the Windows desktop, as the company looks ahead to a vital year for the grand old Operating System.

Speaking to TechRadar last week, Sinofsky outlined one of the key new Windows changes: the transition to work on ARM chips.

Windows on ARM (WOA) is a huge departure for Microsoft – it has previously focused on Intel's x86 platform – but the transition to new chips will not see a move away from the now familiar Windows desktop.

Touchtop?

In a blog post, Sinofsky outlined just why the Windows desktop would not be sacrificed any time soon, insisting that it was a compromise too far as touchscreen devices become widespread.

"Some have suggested we might remove the desktop from WOA in an effort to be pure, to break from the past, or to be more simplistic or expeditious in our approach," he blogged.

"To us, giving up something useful that has little cost to customers was a compromise that we didn't want to see in the evolution of PCs.

"The presence of different models is part of every platform. Whether it is to support a transition to a future programming model, to support different programming models on one platform, or to support different ways of working, the presence of multiple models represents a flexible solution that provides a true no-compromise experience on any platform."

Considering the considerable interest in Windows tablets there is clearly still a desire for a desktop, and Microsoft is aware that familiar user interfaces are as much about serving up what a consumer expects as clinging on to the past.

TechRadar's hands on: Windows 8 review discusses the difficulties in balancing a traditional desktop and the touch-friendly modern Metro UI that runs over the top of it.

And even if that transition is still a little clumsy, it seems that ditching the desktop would be a step too far for many - including the team at Microsoft.

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Monday at 17:39 UTC

4. @ munichlondon: That's basically how Windows 8 can work already.

I have to agree with Simon_M. The iPad and iPhone are incredibly slick and efficient (uninstalling an app is so much easier than on Android too) but they both feel very dumbed down after using a Desktop OS or Android.

You cannot do "anything" with the home screen except change the wallpaper or move shortcuts around. That's it!

This makes it very simple for newbies to pick up but takes away an extreme level of control even Mac OS X (currently) offers.

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Monday at 15:46 UTC

3. In my perfect world a Win8 tablet runs in 'Metro-Mode' while on its own and switches to 'Tradional-Mode' once attached to a keyboard/trackpad (read: transformer prime keybord) or when forced to do so.

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Monday at 14:26 UTC

2. Having a desktop is vital to most peoples notions of computing. Most Linux distros, Windows, Mac OSX and Android all have desktops (even if Android calls it 'homescreens') - it's by far my preferred way of computing, and the success of iOS in ditching them should not be taken as a sign that all devices would benefit from this. It's too simplistic for a machine that will be running all of your domestic/professional software.

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Monday at 12:48 UTC

1. If this is truly the case then you should be able to operate exclusivly in desktop mode on any windows 8 device and not have to go back and forth to the Meto interface to switch/start programs or do anything that you used to do on the Start menu. It seems to me that this is currently not the case to as it stands from the Developer preview verion.

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Opinion: How to make Linux the preferred desktop choice

How to make Linux the preferred desktop choice

The fight for the desktop might be entering its final phase, but not in the way any of us could have imagined 10 years ago.

In an interview at www.derstandard.at, for example, KDE's Aaron Siego said that the desktop is losing importance in the same way as newspapers, and after a conversation with Miguel de Icaza, Tim Anderson posted on his blog that the former Gnome founder felt that many of the benefits in open source development had played against the success of Linux on the desktop.

According to Miguel, this was because of fragmentation (my word) in the number of times we break the APIs for developers, and the cycle of upgrades that cause incompatibility between distributions, and even different versions of the same distribution.

Even suggesting that there's too much choice is controversial, as I've found out in the past, and Miguel has brewed a small storm with his statements. But there are two elements in his argument that change the angle, and I think set a new challenge for both Linux and Windows for the next 10 years.

The first is connected to the idea that the desktop is beginning to matter less - a point also made by Rob Pike at Google and many others since the release of the iPad. But it's important to differentiate between what might be seen as a fad for tablet computing and the obvious target for any desktop growth, and the increased pervasiveness of all technology in our lives.

It's not just smartphones that replace PCs - you could just as easily accuse internet enabled televisions, games consoles and satellite receivers of stealing desktop market share. But what these devices have really done is take an application off the desktop and move it into a more convenient form factor - regardless of whether that's a TV for YouTube or a fridge for recipes.

The result is that we no longer have as much need to sit down formally at a desk and use the computer. That doesn't mean they're becoming redundant - they're just becoming more specialised, and that leads to another of Miguel's issues.

Not enough good apps

"When you count how many great desktop apps there are on Linux, you can probably name 10. [If] you work really hard, you can probably name 20," he's quoted as saying. There's a lack of killer applications for Linux.

I think he's right. If applications are becoming less PC-centric, we need better reasons for using a desktop. Linux faces an uncommon challenge when you need a solid excuse to use one particular system over another, especially when it requires more effort to configure and set up.

The challenge is that I don't think we'll see that killer application. Any application worth the effort will be ported to both Windows and OS X, as has happened with many of the most popular open source projects.

Major releases of software like Audacity, Inkscape, Scribus, LibreOffice and Ardour are almost certainly downloaded more hungrily for systems other than Linux, at least initially (and we won't go into why you can't just download a package and install it on any Linux system).

That's a good thing. Free software is about more than just an operating system, and the more that can be done to unshackle users from proprietary alternatives or pressure their developers to be more open, the happier we'll all be.

All about the desktop

For that reason, the killer application has to be the desktop. The desktop is the best expression of the freedom found within the kernel, as well as community user interface design. It's what makes Linux different from the alternatives, and it has to be the reason why you want to choose it over Windows or OS X.

And while freedom is obviously a big motivation, both in cost and in the availability of the source code, when you move away from software idealism, there needs to be something else.

The problem is that this 'something else' is missing. There is no single desktop you can point to and say 'look at Linux'. Which is a pity, because there's great potential in the Gnome and KDE desktops that will likely be the inspiration behind many new features in their competitors.

Look at the drag-down task switching in Plasma Active, for example, or the touch scrolling for desktop windows, and I bet you'll see replicas of these functions in future versions of either OS X or Windows.

The trick has to be getting people to the Linux desktop first, and making it their preferred environment for desktop tasks like office work and browsing. We shouldn't get distracted by tablets and iOS, and should instead use the genius of open source software to create a singularly awesome desktop that everyone wants to use.

Amiga-based desktop to be released for Christmas

Retro computer enthusiast Amigakit has announced that its AmigaOne X1000 desktop will be with us for Christmas - with a whopping price tag of £2,000.

A labour of love for its creators, Trevor Dickinson, Anthony Moorley and Ben Hermans, it packs a custom-built motherboard running a semi-dual core processor, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 500GB hard drive and a Radeon HD4650 graphics card.

Those specs aren't all that alluring, especially given the whopping price tag, but it's still worth bearing in mind that the AmigaOne has been built from the ground up to run AmigaOS4. Which itself is an optional extra.

First-come only-served

The desktop will be built and sold on a first-come first-served basis, but we're not entirely sure who's going to buy it.

It's more intriguing as a proof of concept though - it shows that established chip architectures aren't the only way to go about building a PC, and that long-dead operating systems can still be resurrected.

We're interested in what AmigaKit does next, too - it's mentioned that the AmigaOS4 could be ported to netbooks.

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