[ivanbernat]

I've said this before and I'll say it again: Microsoft isn't doing this to ban Ubuntu / Linux in general, but to prevent Android from spreading. With ICS being a great OS, many (tech) folks would simply dual-boot ICS on their WinRT devices.

[beedogs]

But those people will just figure out a way to do that anyway.

I don't see the point in these decisions to expend likely a lot of time, effort, and money eliminating edge cases.

[chucknelson]

You never know, if Microsoft allowed it that could open the door to marketing and such that could lead to Win8+Android tablets being mainstream or something.

Not that it would be likely, but I'm sure Microsoft would want to stave off any chance of that happening in the early days of the platform.

[silon3]

Virtualization is better than dual boot anyway. MS better make it run well virtualized.

[commandar]

On hardware that's powerful enough to handle virtualization well, sure.

It looks like ARM has gotten some virtualization extensions recently, but I still have my doubts as to how pleasant the experience would be on sub 1.5GHz processors.

[gouranga]

For reference, it absolutely fucking sucks under virtualization.