The ‘QwenBook’ Laptop Can Run Every OS at Once, and It May Be PC Fans’ Worst Nightmare
THE SO WHAT
A China-only laptop that treats OS choice as a runtime option, not a hardware decision, points to a future where the PC is just a local hypervisor for many environments. For IT and dev tooling, assume users will expect frictionless context-switching across OSes and plan security and licensing accordingly.
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