Low level deets are sketchy, but when your source is a press release, that’s bound to happen, right? What we do know is that U3 mobile tech is getting an overhaul. If you’re not familiar with U3, it’s essentially a portable application approach to carry your software and settings on a USB drive; quite useful for us mobile sorts. SanDisk spearheaded the approach a few years back, and effective today they’ll be partnering with Microsoft to expand and replace the current approach:
"The new offering will be designed so that users can carry theirpersonal computing environment — including a customized and familiaruser interface, applications and data — on a flash storage device suchas a USB flash drive or flash memory card. This computing environmentwill be accessible on Windows XP- and Windows Vista™-based computerswith a USB port or flash card reader."
I emphasized in bold an interesting tidbit above because I’m wondering about the implications of it. Will we truly carry a full computing environment with us like you can with Mojopac? Will there be a portable XP or Vista interface, perhaps embedded in the flash? Perhaps I’m reading into it too much…
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