Its Sparc computer chip and Solaris operating system have been made less relevant by Microsoft Windows, Intel chips and the open-source Linux operating system.
Likewise, they added support for Windows NT on Intel or non-Intel platforms because they assumed NT would sweep the world.
Windows NT on Intel stands alone, and the hope of selling more non-Intel hardware based on the success of NT has collapsed.
It is the economic argument in favour of running Windows 2000 on Intel's Itanium early next year that undoubtedly poses a threat to Sun at the bottom and the middle bits of its server range.
Having been caught out by the Internet-stoked demand for web and application servers as well as the very late arrival of Windows 2000 and Intel's Itanium chip, both have recently produced high-end servers that have outscored Sun's in benchmark tests.
Both ARM and Intel architecture will be Windows 8 compatible and we feel that the backward compatibility of Intel processor with older versions might not suffice as a significant differentiating factor.
If consumers associate Intel with Windows, the way they have for PCs, Atom could benefit.
Windows 8 tablets and Intel-specification Ultrabooks are generating a fair amount of interest and some debate, as my previous post on Windows 8 adoption predictions showed.
Hello Windows 8 tablets on Intel and ARM.
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Additionally, it marks the second time this week that Intel has indirectly slighted Microsoft, the first one being a damning analysis of Windows 8 on ARM by fellow Intel SVP Renee James.
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The computer Brownell came up with was built using general-purpose Intel chips and Windows and Linux operating systems.
Dell explains this is because of things like the space claimed by Windows 8, and an Intel system that guarantees fast starting and resuming.
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The previously announced ThinkPad Tablet 2, designed for Windows 8 and powered by Intel's next generation CPU technology, will also debut this month alongside the new convertibles.
By way of a true Windows 8 operating system with Intel architecture, the broadest array of today's most popular PC games will run natively on the Razer Edge without the need to be ported, optimized or developed anew.
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As the Intel-based Windows 8 begins to proliferate across a wide range of devices and developers seek to capitalize on distribution via the Windows app store, a broader mosaic of Live Tiles will lie waiting to take advantage of Surface's attractive hardware options.
That includes the Surface for Windows 8 Pro, which is slightly larger and decidedly more Intel-based than its ARM-fueled counterpart for Windows RT.
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Indeed, most of the agenda-setting for the future of the PC occurs at Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference and the Intel Developer Forum.
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The XPS 18 is based on third-generation Intel Core processors and Windows 8 operating system for no-compromise performance, whether docked or on the go.
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With game developers getting more power to work with across iOS, Android and Windows devices and big companies like Intel, NVIDIA and Qualcomm investing in games, the future is looking bright for mobile games.
Homes and offices were filling up with personal computers sold by the likes of Dell or Compaq, with CPUs from Intel, running on Windows 95 and later iterations of the dominant operating system from of Microsoft, and connected to the Internet with networking equipment from Cisco Systems.
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Unlike Windows, which has been tied to Intel's processor architecture, Google's Android operating system is processor agnostic.
It is most clearly identified with x86 processors from Intel and AMD and the Windows operating system from Microsoft.
One company got a better deal from Microsoft on Windows, while the other did better on Intel chips.
" Moreover, this wee PC will pack a mysterious Intel Core 2 Duo processor, Windows Vista, DVD writer, an optional floppy drive (saywha?), and a whole smorgasbord of other not-yet-mentioned components within a case not much larger than "your average briefcase.
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If you liked the trial, you'll love the judge's greatest-hits collection of Microsoft skullduggery: binding its Internet Explorer browser into Windows just to beat out Netscape, bullying Intel into staying out of the software market, polluting Sun Microsystems' Java programming language to diminish the competitive threat it posed to Windows, threatening IBM.
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It runs on Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Windows XP and requires a PC with an Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Pentium 4 running at 1.3 gigahertz or higher, though a chip running at 2 Ghz or higher is recommended.
There is the standard Intel-only version that runs existing Windows desktop apps and the less versatile tablet-only Windows RT for machines that use an ARM processor.
Until recently, that meant Intel-based computers, primarily running Windows.
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The company so far has not provided any pricing information on Surface tablets, indicating only that the ARM-based tablets will be priced comparably to other Windows RT-based tablets, and that the Intel version would likewise be priced comparably to similar devices from other manufacturers.
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