Wintel engineers said the end performance would depend on how PC manufacturers configured their machines.
The old Wintel innovation cycle was three years but stretched out to six or seven.
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Wintel is easy to say, what do I call products running Windows 8 on ARM-based processors?
Keynote's big drawbacks are huge in a business market dominated by PowerPoint running on Wintel machines.
The strategic options approach is very different from the past when Microsoft owned the downstream Wintel franchise.
Forrester expects global corporate spending on Wintel PCs to be down 3% this year and flat in 2013.
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But now, stuck with a mere 4% of the market and huge losses, Apple makes an unconvincing Wintel-bashing champion.
Its diversity might be the biggest challenge that large vendors have faced since the onset of the Wintel alliance.
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This type of device already exists in the Wintel world and would be a snap for Apple to design and build.
Go back to the mid-1980s and you will see a similar struggle as the Wintel duopoly began to assert itself.
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Five years ago, Apple somehow managed to coerce a world full of Wintel users to give its smartphone platform a chance.
Analysts now talk about a pincer movement, of Sun's being caught between IBM above and Wintel (Microsoft, Intel, Dell, Compaq, etc.) below.
He concedes that "Wintel" machines have similar suites of software, but points out that Apple is the leader in ease of use.
It somehow managed to convince a world of Wintel users to get out of whatever ecosystem they were in, and into iTunes.
Microsoft is shaking up the old Wintel PC world with its plan to offer a version of Windows 8 for devices based ARM-based processors.
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The chip giant is facing its own antitrust investigation in the U.S., and the Wintel pair is no longer quite as thick as thieves are.
The idea is to have an alliance of independent companies as successful as Wintel was, and Capellas says he can unify all the technologies and interests.
Its potential market share will depend on partners like Samsung, but this strategy worked superbly well for Microsoft for decades with the powerhouse of Wintel, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM.
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We should be seeing local news stories showing people throwing old smartphones into big public garbage cans, or bringing their older Wintel boxes in for exchanges (or whatever).
Now there's a case to be made that the Powerbook can in many cases literally become the desktop replacement machine so often discussed in the world of high-end Wintel notebook PCs.
It'd be easy to conclude that we're seeing cracks developing in the old Wintel bond, but we reckon it's more likely that Chipzilla is simply finding the wrong words to express otherwise benign thoughts.
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Even those using Macs will be hard pressed to justify the additional cost if they already have the OS X version of Microsoft's Office Suite on their machines, which is far superior to the Wintel version.
The conclusions seems to be that Apple is playing catch up in the Mobile OS world and has been relegated by Google to a niche position, like it was by Microsoft in the Wintel era.
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Compaq still sells Digital's powerful Unix operating system, which competes against similar products from IBM and Sun, but Compaq's plan is to move the bulk of its customers over to the Wintel combination of Intel microprocessors and Microsoft software.
But just as The Wintel duopoly is now in tatters, the expectation that Google and Facebook will split future revenues from the work that is going on at Mozilla, Samsung, Intel, Jolla, Baidu, LG and elsewhere is open to challenge.
The company, founded and based in China and far-and-away market leader there, was the only Wintel (Microsoft and Intel) firm in the latest PC shipment figures put out by IDC and Gartner to have substantially beat the overall market worldwide.
Compaq still sells Digital's powerful Unix operating system, which competes against similar products from IBM and Sun, but Compaq's long-range plan is to move the bulk of its customers over to the so-called Wintel combination of Intel microprocessors and Microsoft software.
The new operating system follows a smart move in January to ditch the older, problematic Wintel legacy and focus on new versions of Windows for the System on a Chip (SoC) architecture, many times more suitable for tablet devices, according to Sandeep Aggarwal at Caris.
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