The Microsoft-Intel alliance -- the "Wintel" duopoly -- defined the PC era. For decades, the two giants worked hand in hand building the software and hardware platforms of personal computing and ...

Opinion The OpenAI and Nvidia $100 billion partnership sure sounds impressive. $100 billion isn't chicken feed, even as more and more tech companies cross the trillion-dollar mark. But what does it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THEY were the Macbeths of information technology (IT): a wicked couple who seized power and abused it in bloody and avaricious ways. Or so critics of Microsoft and Intel used to say, citing the two ...

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.

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 ...

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." ...