Google befriends Microsoft with WinDroid tablets
Dual-OS to better the iOne?
Google will launch Android 5.0 - codenamed Jellybean - as early as Q3 2012, to coincide with the launch of Microsoft's Windows 8 and offer dual-OS designs for tablet computers.
Taiwan-based supply chain makers have fuelled the rumour mill again, this time with claims Android 5.0 is closer in the pipeline than we may have thought.
However, it's a potential double header with Microsoft that raises eyebrows here. Google is allegedly set to integrate Chrome-like functions into Android 5.0 tablets with dual-operating system designs, Digitimes reports.
Brand vendors will be able to adopt Android 5.0 as a standalone platform, or add the OS to Windows 8 devices with crossover abilities. This will all be possible without shutting down the tablet, apparently.
Windows 8 aims to amalgamate platforms and bring more PC-like functionality to tablet computing - a feat Android 4.0 is said to struggle with. A symbiotic partnership is therefore a titillating prospect for both companies and could be the extra ammunition they need to take a sizeable bite out of Apple's dominance in the mobile market. ®
COMMENTS
Re: Don't worry
Crap just noticed I agreed with Shitpeas.
Pardon me while I go flagellate myself.
It's like a zebra ironing a shirt
...I just can't picture it.
Larry will sell his children if it lets him sell more ads.
Ballmer would rather hack off a testicle with a rusty saw than do anything with Google.
But... I've been wrong before.
microsoft long ago lost sight of what their customers want
You are not a customer of Microsoft. Windows users are not customers of Microsoft. You are customers of OEMs and retailers who are the customers of Microsoft.
Microsoft looks after (or tries to) its customers: the OEMs and retailers. These want to sell more hardware and software more often for more revenue and profit.
If Microsoft could make the hardware run slower a little bit each day so that what was blazing fast in the shop is now turgid and unresponsive compared to new shiny computers in the shop, then that would make their (MS's) customers very happy.
Some think that MS did that.
Why would any normal user (not a tech head) want this feature? Isn't the success of iPad supposedly predicated on "it just works"? It's not "it just works in two different ways with two different sets of apps depending on which os you're in".
Come on Google...
The .net platform on android would be win all around.
