That speaks to the quality of the API, and drivers, Both are stuff that plugs into an operating system at the kernel level but it's a stretch to say _is_ the operating system.

Unless you switch back over to low level programming a fixed system isn't really necessary from where I'm standing.

Complete and utter nonsense. DOS and a Apple II era file selector are perfectly adequate for most office-work. Windows still doesn't have multiple workspaces without a mod program, ala WindowsPager, so if you want to point at multitasking it has zilch on *nix.

Libre/Lotus/etc. non-Microsoft Office you are free to point out are not Microsoft Office, but that's a program that runs on the operating system, not the operating system, and still has nothing to do with Windows Aero or other things that increase the Shell's resource consumption. Not handling things in Android's DVM style that can pause processes based on a system gauging value to the user and resource demands isn't valuable to a business either.


Speaking of Android, Qualcomm says that Sony and Microsoft certified the latest Snapdragon design with the ATI IP based Adreno 3xx GPU, for Playstation and XBox gaming on certified Android and Windows Phone 7 devices respectively. You may remember AMD dropped the related division off to Qualcomm to help raise funds for getting Fusion online, which they've so far used to restablish the old lines except for the ARM division. Given the Stock Holder paperwork indicates they aren't satisfied with Bobcat being slated for tablets as a tablet/mobile division and Global Foundries have never stopped tinkering with ARM designs, we may yet see them reassert themselves there.

Either way the Smart Phone catching up has not only occurred, but in a rather literal fashion thanks to it being ATI IP instead of other vendors. At this point all you can argue is 512MB GDDR3 vs likely a gig of whatever normal DDR they decide to package with it.