Canonical is proclaimed winner in the Convergence

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The fight for convergence systems has endured for a long time in the hands of Canonical and Microsoft but, despite the great implications that this entails for their businesses, Canonical will declare victorious thanks to the last award received.

Convergence refers to the functionality that both Canonical with Ubuntu and Microsoft with Windows 10, intend to provide their systems so that the experience of their telephony users and desktop systems is as portable as possible.

The recent award that Orange has awarded to Canonical for its work carried out in the convergence of operating systems, has earned the company to proclaim itself the winner against its opponent Microsoft.

Specifically, it has been in the last ceremony of the Orange Device Partner Awards when it has been recognized, "for its contribution to the revolution of the telephony", the work carried out in Ubuntu vs. Windows 10 operating system.

The event builds on the work developed over the past 10 years to select which functions, for its innovation, design and marketing have provided a better and further development to the world of mobile telephony. And in this sense, Canonical has done a better job against Microsoft's Continuum feature.

In the event it has been read that Microsoft is in the development of new features for its Continuum feature, which, however, is understood to be more geared towards the home PC experience than the mobile world.

The experience that Continuum offers is still very limited today, basically dedicated to providing basic services of the operating system through a larger screen. For example, there is no support for resizing windows nor is there support for taskbar management, a series of functions that have no relation to the hardware of the device where they are executed. Other functions such as Window mode, will be implemented during the next update Windows 10 Creators Update which is planned for next April. As you can see, a series of improvements that are really aimed at a desktop-like experience rather than a mobile type.

This event has helped the Redmond company to realize that needs a number of urgent improvements to its environment if you want to get ahead when it comes to Windows 10 mobile functionality.

Source: Softpedia.

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  1.   Cristhian said

    Expert question: on convergence, is it possible (somehow, even creating a kernel from scratch) to install the same application regardless of the processor architecture, without having to build packages for each architecture separately?

  2.   David Alvarez said

    in the end microsofy was brushed on it as expected. long live to linux