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While Intel appears to be moving toward a future of more efficient, higher-performance technology, Microsoft, alas, appears bent on the exact opposite. This will inevitably lead to the decoupling of the seemingly-omnipotent WinTel duopoly that has reigned almost unchallenged for two decades. Their paths diverge more every year. Intel continues to build smaller, faster chips.
Intel's Andy Grove compares patents to toxic loans. Setting aside Intel's many market-bound crimes for a moment, here we have another abusive monopolist saying what he really thinks about intellectual monopolies...
To accelerate the process of getting more people using Chrome OS and getting them using Google online services, information is coming to light from our industry sources that indicates Google may very well plan to battle Intel and Microsoft on 2 separate fronts to win the OS, browser and services wars.
It appears that later this month Intel will be announcing a new technology that will be open-source. While what exactly is being launched is not known, from the information provided it is an open-source Intel technology that may deal with optimizing your software to take advantage of multiple computing cores.
Tough economic times are leading customers to scrutinize their Microsoft licensing agreements more than ever before — a fact that’s leading Microsoft to provide some substantial deals and discounts.
Intel and Microsoft have announced a new port of Silverlight to Linux, specifically for the Intel-sponsored Moblin operating system running on Atom-powered devices such as netbooks. The port enables Intel to include Silverlight as a supported runtime in the Atom Developer Program, which will feed an iPhone-like App Store.
More than a month after the BSI, a German IT security federal agency, issued a warning about a high-risk vulnerability in Windows7, Microsoft has finally decided to warn their customers in a security advisory.