Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...
Scott Ritchie
scottritchie at ubuntu.com
Sun Apr 20 19:54:38 UTC 2014
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad
<joerlend.schinstad at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to remind everyone that Microsoft _had to_ switch quickly. It was
> apparent that ARM was here to stay and they had no defence. With all the
> third-party apps, created around the proprietary ideals, they could never
> have competed on ARM as a traditional WIMP system. They had to create
> something very different just to explain why people could no longer run
> their apps. Ubuntu is in a very different situation. We have mostly all our
> apps on ARM and x86. Ubuntu can be fantastic on the phone with an impressive
> desktop addon without competing with the PC desktop. We can have both.
>
I would like to add that, on x86, we can also run the Microsoft apps
with increasing reliability. Wine is only getting better. It also
won't be long before ARM + QEMU is fast enough to run a very
significant and important number of Windows applications. I really
believe that, with a bit of usability work, by next LTS we will have a
migration story that no longer requires users to replace every single
possible app.
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