On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com> wrote:

Microsoft's biggest problem with convergence is they have completely married themselves to the x86 architecture, and so while MS can create an interface for other devices, those devices will largely require non-x86 processors to run and the software for those processors just isn't there, so Linux ends up with a much much better offering in that case, but has a chicken and egg problem. The ultimate filler for that niche probably hasn't been made yet.

Microsoft is actually building their Os and applications stack in such a way that Application developers no long have to develop for the hardware platform, simply to .NET core. that will then do all the work to move the application between x86 or ARM. they have quite a few ARM devices.

A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen