http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994215
The portmanteau word "Wintel" has served as a shorthand acknowledgement of the throughough interdependence between Intel's hardware and Microsoft's software. So significant has this relationship been that despite a bias in this blog about announcements about deliveralbles Real Soon Now, I am mentioning this one: a CPU chip which will allow different OS to run together with the same ease as different applications run under one OS today.
I would be the last to underestimate the value of this, the threat it poses to Microsoft, or the degree of difficulty in actually delivering on this promise.
Posted by jho at October 20, 2003 05:33 PM