Where do we go if Intel decides to cease support Windows?

[Hillbilly]

Intel is now blowing smoke with their own OS which is a parasite feeding off
Linux rather than building their own OS and taking all the hard work and the
hits along the way. An Intel "architect" is shooting his mouth off in a
LinkedIn group claiming this is the end of "WinTel."

Would Microsoft cozy up to AMD in a big way?

Your opinions?

 

[Mr. Arnold]

Intel is now blowing smoke with their own OS which is a parasite feeding
off Linux rather than building their own OS and taking all the hard work
and the hits along the way. An Intel "architect" is shooting his mouth
off in a LinkedIn group claiming this is the end of "WinTel."

Would Microsoft cozy up to AMD in a big way?

Your opinions?

I thought Intel was on the ECMA and ISO Standards Committees for .NET?

 

[Hillbilly]

Yea, its been monkey see monkey do for vendors joining these sorts of groups
but the implications of what may occur in the near future do not bode well
as they are likely to favor their *nix OS and drag support for .NET behind.
Who knows now? All I do know is the flamebait that came from the guy I was
referring to and the implications regarding our future. Maybe in a wild and
crazy parallel universe Microsoft already owns AMD ;-)

 

[Mr. Arnold]

Yea, its been monkey see monkey do for vendors joining these sorts of
groups but the implications of what may occur in the near future do not
bode well as they are likely to favor their *nix OS and drag support for
.NET behind. Who knows now? All I do know is the flamebait that came
from the guy I was referring to and the implications regarding our
future. Maybe in a wild and crazy parallel universe Microsoft already
owns AMD ;-)

It seems it's just another *nix OS user on his soapbox, a dime a dozen,
preaching the doom of MS. He'll be dust in his grave when and if MS falls.

What else is new?

 

[DickGrier]

This simply will not happen. OK, so the possibility is so small it cannot
be judged. Certainly if Intel's goal was to loose many millions of dollars
of income each year, I suppose the wildest might judge it "possible."

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2006.

 

[Saga]

I really don't see this happening. Saga

 

[Hillbilly]

Does Microsoft optimize their products to run optimally with their own
products or does Microsoft optimize their products to run on a different OS?

Now maybe do you think you might consider where this may be going in the
near future?

 

[Saga]

I can't answer your question honestly because I do not have that kind of
in depth knowledge as to how far MS products are optimized for other
products coming from the same company. If you believe what you read,
MS was accused of doing this and the DOJ forzed MS to stop doing it
and to share OS knowledge with competitors so as to not have an unfair
advantage.

Except for a few products for Mac OS X, MS does not supoprt any other
OS which basically leaves the diverse flavor os *nix and now Google
Chrome.

But this is not the topic. If I understood, the question at hand was whether
Intel would stop supporting MS which in turn would mean that MS would
cozy up to AMD, since one of the s/w people was blowing off steam about
Intel's new *nix OS. This is a different ballgame with possibly far reaching
negative implication for Intel. For this reason, I don't see any sane to
level
executive at Intel attempting to follow such a path. I also don't see MS
"fixing" their software so that it is optimized for AMD's processors. It
simply does not make any business sense. Regards, Saga

 

[Hillbilly]

Not --stop-- supporting Windows Saga but --slow down-- support for Windows
just enough to always be lagging behind so Intel chipsets remain optimized
for Linux.

 

[Patrice]

Hello,

Not sure how a processor could be "optimized" for a given OS ? See for
example Apple switching from PPC to Intel. IMO much other things could be
worried about before this particular issue (or is this really an issue ?)