>
> If Longhorn runs on Power PC, what need for Intel?
>
> A domino theory for our day
> By Esther Tigre: Wednesday 03 March 2004, 20:02
>
> IT'S LIKELY that the multi-million OS experiment currently
> known as Longhorn will also run on Xbox 2s, posing a serious
> question for Intel in the future. Whither?
> Sources claim that Microsoft is shoehorning faux screenshots
> of the GUI into the public domain, only to bring out
> something completely different when the day of the launch is
> that much nearer.
> Yet if Microsoft decides that Longhorn runs not only on
> future Xboxes but on the Power PC platform as well, there's
> plenty of room to speculate that the Vole could acquire Apple
> and dump Intel, without the antitrust forces getting too excited.
> Because Linux currently has more market share than Apple.
> The Power PC licence Microsoft has could allow it to take
> designs from IBM to Samsung or other big fabrication centres
> and play the foundry game to its heart content.
> Just the possibility of Microsoft dumping the entire Intel
> platform and moving to the Power PC instead must be causing
> shivers in Santa Clara, we'd suspect.
> The Wintel partnership has survived for a long time, but it
> could be that it won't be too long before never the twain
> shall meet, again. µ
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