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Intel and Microsoft no longer dominate the personal computing industry as the once fearsome Wintel alliance, Intel has acknowledged. Now the chip giant has announced a broad push to get its silicon into devices running Windows' rival operating systems. Intel's PC chief Kirk Skaugen admitted the demise of the ages-old alliance …

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  1. Jim O'Reilly
    Pint

    This is a big plus for Intel, even if very belated. They are finally moving from their view that Wintel is the center of the universe to a much more sensible position. Despite the jokes about Chrometel and the rest, their direction is coming together, but they have a lot of ground to make up in some areas.

    This will help enliven a computer industry that was rapidly becoming white box and commoditized. In the end, the losers are the proprietary CPU chip makers, and Microsoft.

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  2. Mr. Peterson

    vPro Technology

    Remote and local monitoring...of PCs and workstations

    terrific! just can't get enuff of remote monitoring in today's busy & complex world

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  3. Matt Bryant Silver badge
    WTF?

    WTF is that cluetard Skaugen smoking?

    Intel have been cosy with Linux for years, this "100% Microsoft" revisionism is just too unreal for words. Did someone not tell him the term Lintel has been around for over a decade? Has he ever even heard of the Linux Foundation or the large amount of code Intel has donated to the FOSS community? Yes, Intel have put a lot into work with Microsoft, but to pretend they have completely ignored Linux is just bizarre. Intel should be proudly talking about their driver programs for Linux, their work with Linux disties like Red Hat, not pretending it didn't happen just because the marketing bods are worried about ARM penetration of the tablet/mobile market. Android is only around now because Linux was born on Intel's 80386 platform.

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  4. phil dude
    Linux

    to phi or not to phi....

    Well here in Denver I saw and spoke to the groups using the new Phi. I must say I am quite please there is a GPU for computing alternative in the market.

    And to add to this discussion, this "phi" comes in all flavours and boots a normal (i686?) linux kernel, and has 240 cores.

    I have bought AMD for years, but this is the first time I am thinking of getting an Intel product that looks generally interesting.

    Ultimately computers are all interchangeable, it is the cost of the conversion that is decides what code runs on what.

    Intel clearly have some excellent engineers....

    P.

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  5. All names Taken

    First of all, Intel does catch-up very easily and surpasses even swifter but that makes it all the more playful to:

    IHemorroid - new Android competing OS that really is a pain in the a**e?

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      "Intel does catch-up very easily and surpasses even swifter "

      They do as long as it's Intel's x86 products you're talking about.

      Not with anything else though. IA64 (pre-announced as 64bit winner, now even Intel+HP admit is a 64bit loser) vs AMD64 (copied by Intel who did indeed catch up and then overtook) is just the best known example, many others exist.

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  6. Alan Denman

    Antitrust is lip service. Anything can happen.

    The AMD Intel things was lip service by the whole WinTel alliance.

    Anti-trust, it surely will revert back to 'let's all pretend there is some competition'.

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  7. All names Taken
    Paris Hilton

    You r awl rong

    You are all wrong and exhibit classic tendencies that cling on to the old order.

    The old order mish-mashed together Intel, Microsoft and IBM.

    The new order mish-mashes together ARM and whoever, Android and whoever, insert name of your favourite assembler here and chip set.

    While aeons ago some hardware and software combinations were described as means of democratising something (desktop publishing, web publishing, image editing, video editing and animation creation, ... ) welcome to the new world, the new era in which hardware, software and firmware have just been democratized.

    And know what?

    For some it hurts.

    It really, really hurts.

    And then, of course, there are China, Brazil, India and Russia.

    What might they bring to this market of much reducing Wintel influence (assuming that there is some form of independence therein)?

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  8. Christian Berger

    Microsoft got to bad...

    ...they never managed to build a system which was easy enough to keep running yet powerful enough to do anything with it except for very undemanding tasks. Windows, for example, didn't have a proper shell for most of its time and now it's to late since nobody ports their work to it.

    That's why on the serious end of things Linux has taken over. Modern Linux distributions are easier to run (think of updates and software distribution) and are proper operating systems.

    On the side of less demanding tasks the market gets gobbled up by mobile devices.

    If Intel continues to hold on to Microsoft they will sink with that sinking ship. Actually even the attempts from Microsoft to appease Intel (like not supporting win32 on ARM) are hurting Microsoft. And even the attempts from Intel to thank Microsoft do the same for Intel (like skipping Linux support on one generation of Atom).

    Wintel is hurting both Microsoft and Intel. It's in the best interest for both companies to end it soon.

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