>>>>I agree that in many cases running splashtop on your Android 21" desktop would be fine. I do it with my ASUS now and with the Hi Res screen I see my 24" monitor exactly the same on the tablet (albeit on a 10" screen) Works really well.
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>>>>Just didn't want anyone to be confused that you could actually run Windows apps on an Android.
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>>>>That said, I'd like to see what Android as an OS could do on a box with 8-16gb of ram, really fast processors and killer video cards. I don't really know much about what the OS is capable of on a larger platform.
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>>>>BTW this ASUS 700 transformer with the docking keyboard is really really nice. Still find it slower than I'd like but as a netbook it is very nice and a lot of fun to work on.
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>>>Android is based on Linux, which runs on everything from the Raspberry Pi to supercomputers. While there are currently significant differences ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29#Linux ), apparently there is a roadmap to merge them.
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>>That sounds like a much greater existential threat to MS than good ol' geeky Linux. Android has consumer standing. Create a desktop that works just like your phone or tablet - only bigger faster better but is truly integrated. MS trying to come the other way from big old bloaty Windows to the phone.
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>>I would love to have a big powerful laptop or "grandpa box" that ran Android on steroids with 16gb of ram and serious windowed multi--processing maybe addressing multiple multicore processors.
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>Hmmm that sounds like a laptop.
>Except for cost and "openness".. which MS can deal with any time it wants, what's the difference between Android and Windows?

But dealing with it means making their OS open source and giving it away. Not exactly a profitable business model for a company that relies on OS for profit. What really scares me though is that I think things in Redmond right now are too a point where they are living in and internal feed-back loop that is flawed to the point of disfunction and whatever they do is going to be too little too late.

I just think of IBM and micro-channel architecture.

I'm not a great andoid fan, I just think MS is living a delusional world since to my mind Win 8 is so obviously the result of some kind of internal MS politics. I can't believe no one in Redmond was smart enough to see what practically every independant reviewer has seen : that sensing touching screen or no touch screen and adjusting the interface appropriately might have made it a winner instead of an embarrassment.