Worlds most popular OS Redesigned -Dual Boots with Win 8 !

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The Worlds most popular OS, Android has been redesigned to scale up from a mobile OS to a full desktop OS, to dual boot with windows 8 - even natively on Surface 1, 2 and 3 tablets, has full support from Intel, and Minnowboard Max (Atom based mini motherboard) and lastly to be a fully functioning GAMING platform with the power and ability to create and run AAA PC quality games (has native support for Unity, Havok and Unreal 4 engines) - and even use them with keyboard and mouse.

The name of this Android redesign is called Console OS and it ships in December 2014 on real world hardware as well as will have a free downloadable version. Console OS is designed to run on desktops, laptops, tablets that are x86 based. Console OS will support Google Play ( though not installed by default) and will run all Google Play apps as well as all ARM based apps. Console OS is UEFI and Secure Boot compatible.

This isn't bluestacks a virtual machine or any kind of emulator. This will dual boot natively with the ability to switch between Windows and Console OS in mere seconds unlike traditional dual booting, using the InstaSwitch feature. You'll also have the ability to transfer files from one OS to the other as well as transfer data to or from all your other Android devices.

Console OS was funded by a Kickstarter campaign. The public has spoken. The public wants a powerful Android system to dual boot with Windows and now they will have it.

In fact, this Android redesign is so powerful for your PC the company hopes people will use Console OS as the primary desktop OS - which now with good gaming abilities could really happen. Microsoft and Google won't like that but I don't care what Microsoft and Google likes. "I" am the consumer, Microsoft and Google has to listen to "Me" or fall by the wayside.

I think Console OS will be Huge by giving users the ability to use both of the worlds largest most popular OS's on the same machine. I am excited about what I can do with these two working together.

What do you think? You can check out more at: Console OS - Native Android Remastered for the PC
 
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interesting ,I would love to try it on a bigger screen ,I do have an android phone,played a few race type games on it but just to small and to hard on the battery .
 

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I think Console OS will be Huge by giving users the ability to use both of the worlds largest most popular OS's on the same machine. I am excited about what I can do with these two working together.

What do you think?
And Linux was going to be huge in desktops but it never happened.

Time will tell for this new OS. I will give it a try just to see what's it about.
 

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I wouldn't call Android "The world's most popular OS". That's like calling McDonald's "The world's most popular food". Just because it's the most used doesn't make it the most popular.

Popularity implies that you prefer the OS over all others, and not just use it because it's the cheapest and most readily available.

I use android... I have a ton of android devices... but I only use it because i hate the iPhone, and my carrier doesn't have windows phones that are from this century. I prefer my iPad for a general tablet, but I prefer my Asus VivoTab with Windows 8.1 for work related tablet use. Android just isn't in the picture, except for my phone.
 

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... dual boot with windows 8 - even natively on Surface 1, 2 and 3 tablets, ...
Where did you get that info? I'm a Console OS backer and nothing I've seen or read has said that they plan to support the Surface products. I have my fingers crossed for Surface support but to my knowledge they haven't announced it yet.
 

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I had never heard of it till just now. Looks great. I would have backed it on kickstarter, if I had known it was there.


https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mmv/console-os-dual-boot-android-remastered-for-the-pc
 

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This looks promising but I'll wait till all the guinea pigs... uh beta testers check it out and post back :)

Wouldn't be bad to have on a laptop though.
 

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Had it going as Live on USB and in VM, it was just a giant phone without calling possibility. No real use on a PC, specially desktop.
 

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... dual boot with windows 8 - even natively on Surface 1, 2 and 3 tablets, ...
Where did you get that info? I'm a Console OS backer and nothing I've seen or read has said that they plan to support the Surface products. I have my fingers crossed for Surface support but to my knowledge they haven't announced it yet.

I know they were working to that end via their 2nd youtube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAZaN7A27RM
 

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Had it going as Live on USB and in VM, it was just a giant phone without calling possibility. No real use on a PC, specially desktop.

Really? I didn't know they ever released a version to test. Are there updated versions, do you have a link?

Reading the material makes this OS coupled with something like the Minnowboard MAX (or even my present laptop) look really sweet if it can live up to all the claims. We'll see in December. I already use various Android VM's and Android x86 dual booting with Windows and most everything works so I know the system will work - it's just a matter of the niceties such as getting Havok and Unreal 4 games to work with it.. which they have already solved it seems.
 

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Hi there

Currently Android has NOTHING that would want me to use it on a desktop - whether as a VM or as a Virtual Machine. The whole Android concept is based around those stupid tiles which were really HATED by desktop users in Windows 8. Thank goodness Ms came to its senses and released Windows 8.1

Android IMO is best left where it belongs - on phones / slates / other 100% touch devices -- start trying to turn it into a desktop OS -- well it takes YEARS to develop 100% enterprise strength robust applications to run on it -- would you rely putting a billion dollar business with large networks and international operations on to an unproven OS.

What about the zillions of pieces of ERP software out there - or large CAD / Engineering stuff -- do you really want to run that type of application on an OS that essentially is designed for touch screens and mobile phones.

Google might get away with it - but remember a lot of google apps are all CLOUD BASED which is another problem for a lot of businesses.

A lot of the drive for Android is probably by gamers and hobbyists - but a real life business needs cast iron enterprise strength robust applications - and my experience with Android apps so far is that it's always a gamble if the next time you use them whether they STILL work -- many times these phone apps get "updated" automatically and they either fail to work or are WORSE than the pervious version.

Cheers
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Couldn't see anything a normal Android OS can offer to desktops. Even if Google made a "real" desktop OS on same lines, it would be just another Linux. It would take a REALLY new OS and huge base of real applications to even start being any alternative to other mainstream OSes and years of convincing people and specially corporations to go for it.
 

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Looks like they are focusing on games - that may be interesting for some people but not for many. What about the Windows applications.
 

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I know they were working to that end via their 2nd youtube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAZaN7A27RM
that's great news to me. As a backer I receive regular updates from them and this is the first I've seen of them saying anything positive about supporting the Surface. The Surface has always been listed as a "maybe".

Part of being a backer meant we were given "votes" to cast to determine which individual devices would be given full support. We were just asked to cast our votes last week and I cast all of mine for the Surface. They haven't responded with the results of the voting yet.
 

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Looks like they are focusing on games - that may be interesting for some people but not for many. What about the Windows applications.

( I think you meant to say PC applications instead of Windows applications)

No need for Microsoft Windows (more properly PC Applications) applications at all. There is an Android app for most all things you could want to do as well as this thing can dual boot with Linux which can run many "windows" and or PC applications using Wine. For most popular PC programs there is either an Android equivalent or a version of that app made for Android.

"Windows applications" are only those applications made by Microsoft and added natively into a windows OS (wordpad, ect) - no need for them at all unless you are running a windows OS that needs those applications.

It's the AAA PC type games that don't have equivalents that's why that needed fixing. Now that said, an All in One OS that will run apps from Windows, Linux and Android from the same OS would be awesome - but only if Microsoft didn't touch it and it was all open source.

I think we are getting closer all the time to that All In One type of system and one day when the open source community makes it, Microsoft will go Poof. React OS is still being developed and it's possible I suppose to merge Linux with android because they use the same kernel. I give Microsoft another 10 years at best before they fold.

Besides, you can already run "windows" and or PC apps on Android devices via many methods, one such as visualization : http://www.gottabemobile.com/2014/06/22/how-to-run-windows-apps-on-android/

and then there is the Wine on Android project How'd you like to run Windows apps on Android? | Network World
 
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No need for Microsoft Windows (more properly PC Applications) applications at all.
Sorry but that is utter nonsense. There are plenty of applications that only run under Windows. For example I need only one program for my work - IBM Navigator for i It will not run under wine (which is a nasty cludge anyway), it will not run on OSX, it will not run on Android.

I also need Office. Sure there are linux office suites which are mostly compatible (except for access, outlook, project) and some versions (2010 sort of works, 2013 doesn't) you can run under wine. Why would you want to though? What do you gain?

I also have to boot into OSX for some programs which I can not use, even under virtualisation on Windows or Linux, mainly due to the lack of decent graphics support in VMs.

Your original post was interesting - running Android on desktop could be fun. Different OS have a place for doing different things - for sure you would use linux not windows for a san - but don't get carried away and start thinking that Android is in some way a better OS for desktop users because for sure it isn't ever going to be. At least for some people.
 

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No need for Microsoft Windows (more properly PC Applications) applications at all. There is an Android app for most all things you could want to do as well as this thing can dual boot with Linux which can run many "windows" and or PC applications using Wine.
I think you are an optimist. I use Android and many Linux distros since years. But I still have to go to Windows for many applications.

Whilst it is true that there are many Android and Linux applications that can do wonderful things, there are often no equivalents to the vast array of Windows apps - especially in the are of system analysis and repair, video editing, CAD and a lot more. Even office applications such as Power Point have no real match. Yes there are e.g. Libre Office apps, but they are a lot less powerful and they are not fully compatible with my gezillion files.

And forget Wine. That rarely works. And games, I don't really care about. In my 50 years of IT, I have never played a game.
 

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No need for Microsoft Windows (more properly PC Applications) applications at all. There is an Android app for most all things you could want to do as well as this thing can dual boot with Linux which can run many "windows" and or PC applications using Wine. For most popular PC programs there is either an Android equivalent or a version of that app made for Android.

Wow, you sure have a penchant for exaggeration. "Worlds most popular OS", "No need for Windows", "App for most all things you could want"...

All of those things are simply false... at least for most people. You might get better reactions if you didn't try to blow smoke up our rear ends all the time.
 

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Well, to be fair, Android is the operating system with the most installations - mainly because of all the phones. And it does have some useful apps in the Apps Stores - although most of it there is junk. But for the rest, we have said everything.
 

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Well, as I said in an earlier post, most used != most popular, otherwise McDonalds would be the most popular food in the world... it's just the most eaten. Popularity implies that you actually prefer it to everything else.
 

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