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"The plus for Intel is that as they unify their operating systems we now have the ability for the first time, one, to have a designed-from-scratch, touch-enabled operating system for tablets that runs on Intel that we don't have today; and, secondly, we have the ability to put our lowest-power Intel processors, running Windows 8 or the next generation of Windows, into phones, because it's the same OS stack," Otellini said. "And I look at that as an upside opportunity for us. On the downside, there's the potential, given that Office runs on these products, for some creep-up coming into the PC space. I am skeptical of that for two reasons: one, that space has a different set of power and performance requirements where Intel is exceptionally good; and secondly, users of those machines expect legacy support for software and peripherals that has to all be enabled from scratch for those devices."
We hope that Otellini did not really mean his company would put Windows 8 on smartphones. It is very interesting, however, that he described the next version of Windows as "designed-from-scratch, touch-enabled operating system for tablets." Either way, Intel and Microsoft are very important partners, and somehow we think the two will figure out how to get the next versions of Windows running on phones, tablets, and PCs powered by various types of Intel chips.
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Except that Microsoft is quickly becoming irrelevant.
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Keep telling yourself that
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Wagan8r said:
Guest said:Except that Microsoft is quickly becoming irrelevant.
Haha! You're so cute!
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intel? we need to own the phone not hear about it, the price is going to skyrocket. x.x AMD FTW
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Mizzou said:
Except that Microsoft is quickly becoming irrelevant.Exactly, that's why little 'ol Intel is wanting to work out a partnership with them
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yRaz said:
intel? we need to own the phone not hear about it, the price is going to skyrocket. x.x AMD FTWnot really, there is a lot of competition in the smartphone market right now and AMD has its hands full.
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