Most tech “alliances” -- two or more big companies that work together when they would otherwise head for the jugular – are just short-lived deals surrounded with blather. There just aren’t a lot ...

The most basic, and traditional, Wintel vs Lintel TCO comparison argued that since the hardware is the same, everything comes down to the cost of the OS and applications licenses -all of which are ...

Reading my RSS and Twitter feeds Tuesday night, I turned to a tech writer friend and said, "the Wintel Era just ended, and half of these people are fighting over whether demo tablets should have fans.

Intel and Microsoft, left out of Apple's success, are courting new hardware and software partners that have a presence in the mobile market. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Not many companies can say they've defined an era of computing, but Intel and Microsoft are among the few that have those bragging rights. As early as the 1980s, Intel and Microsoft -- an alliance so ...

New Chromebooks announced this week signal Intel’s willingness to broaden its horizons and work with companies like Google, at the expense of its long-standing Windows partnership with Microsoft.

Here's the full text of something by frequent contributor Anton Philidor during last week's discussion of various approaches to Lintel/Wintel TCO comparisons: "Linux is more expensive than Windows." ...

OpenOSX on Wednesday announced the release of WinTel 2.1.2, an updated version of their graphical user interface to control the open source PC emulator Qemu. WinTel costs as little as $25. OpenOSX ...

Microsoft and Intel had their day during the rise of the PC, but Wintel hegemony is over. HP is well aware of that fact and is actively hedging its bets on the future of computing. HP has been in ...

Propelled by the massive success of its iPad and iPhone, Apple in 2012 became the world's most valuable company. The Cupertino, Calif.-based giant, according to analyst firm IHS iSuppli, managed to ...

The Wintel alliance looks in danger of dying according to an article by Theo Valich. Theo says that the breakup may center on the Xbox 360 and the introduction of AMD's x86-64 instruction set. But ...

Last October, Gary Clark looked into La-Z Boy Inc.’s data center and pondered two pressing concerns: rack upon rack of network servers that were multiplying like rabbits and the mounting costs of ...