Intel outs Android 4.2.2 alpha dev code with Windows 8 dual-boot

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Intel is on a mission to prove that it isn't too late to catch up to other chipset manufacturers yet in the ever-growing world of Android. And its latest move involves releasing Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean developer code that has been optimized for Intel hardware.

Although Intel has been a bit slow with the updates, at least they have been coming out more consistently over the past year. The developers at its own Open Source Technology Center have no doubt been hard at work over the last six months, which is why the world can now enjoy access to Intel-optimized Android 4.2.2 alpha dev code.

So what exactly does this new release code bring to the table, anyway? For starters, it now offers UEFI boot support, as well as support for dual-booting with Microsoft's Windows 8. It is also powered by the Linux 3.8 kernel now and includes an interactive installer which should make it easier to work with.

Intel warns all those who intend on downloading and using this new release about bugs and general pre-alpha quality issues. So while this is mostly good news, you should know that if you hit the source code below, you are doing it at your own risk.

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Comments

Booday

Did you just say a laptop isn’t mobile?
- MasterMuffin
  
  Technically it is, but I personally don’t count laptop as mobile either
- Ugo Marceau
  
  It’d probably be more correct to say it isn’t AS mobile. Compared to tablets or phones which can do so many things as well as a PC.
- Josh Fischer
  
  A laptop is mobile compared to a desktop, but not many people carry them at all times like people do with mobile phones and to a lesser extent tablets.
- Magnetic1
  
  People say portable laptop and mobile phones.
  But a lot of people say thing they don’t always mean.
CharlesKGim

At the end of the day, as usual, Microsoft is lying. Some of the licenses they have with these companies are cross licenses and they market them as though they are Android licenses. Anyone, who believes Microsoft is making billions off of Android AND trying to stop Android needs to have their head examined.
CharlesKGim

At the end of the day, as usual, Microsoft is lying. Some of the licenses they have with these companies are cross licenses and they market them as though they are Android licenses. Anyone, who believes Microsoft is making billions off of Android AND trying to stop Android needs to have their head examined.
Will Stewart

Microsoft makes billions from Android…which is then wasted on Bing, Surface and Nokia.
- edgard
  
  they shouldn’t waste it.
  all those fail.
  
  M$ should make a good Halo games on WP instead of wasting time & money attacking Android..
Marvin Nakajima

I had to set up solitaire on my Dad’s new Win8 laptop.. Seems they kicked out all those game apps from the OS install. In its place you have to now create a free MS online account and then an XBox gamer account which then allows you to download and install the free win8 Solitaire and Minesweeper apps. If that level of integration is true across the rest of the Application environment the tie-in between Win8 devices and Xbox will probably help MS at least stop further acceleration in loss of mindshare.
http://profiles.google.com/gbatmarx greg batmarx

Microsoft: the most disgusting tech company that is even worse than apple. Promoting crappy closed source OSes that you are not allowed to own or share while trying to destroy (or profiting from!) opensource Oses that are better in every sense…