Seems like Microsoft’s attempt to fight back against Google’s
Chromebooks in the education market has been a failure, and it is
giving up
<https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-ending-windows-11-s…>.
Put the blame on trying to squeeze the Windows quart into the pint-pot
of low-cost, purpose-built educational machines:
Microsoft hasn't given a formal reason as to why they are ending
Windows 11 SE. Presumably, one of the biggest challenges was that
despite being a version meant for classrooms, it was fundamentally
based on the full version of Windows 11. This meant it struggled
to run well on the low-cost devices that schools often buy, a
space where Chrome OS thrives. Google’s offering continues to be a
truly lightweight cloud-based operating system designed from the
ground up for this purpose.
Does this mean we stop including Chromebooks as part of the “desktop”
market that Windows is supposedly king of?
Looks like it is finally available (initiative got announced in 2024):
'Linux has been used for decades powering the world’s supercomputers,
data centers, web servers, and most smartphones. Now KDE makes it
available for you too!
Introducing KDE Linux, a free operating system that can turbocharge
new computers and breathe new life into old ones.'
-- source: https://kde.org/linux/
-- mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/114949288867476013
Cheers, Peter
Let me see if I understand this article
<https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/sir-peter-jackson-to-sell-weta-digital-…>
correctly: the part of Weta Digital that used to develop the in-house
3D graphics/effects tools that they use in all those movies is being
sold to US-based Unity Software. The part that is left will be called
“WetaFX”, and will become a customer of Unity for the use of those
tools, no longer doing its own development in-house.
By the way, I’ve been looking at the Unity site <https://unity.com/>,
and it looks like all their products are rentware (subscription-based).
