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[News] Cringely: Charity Killer Breaks up with Microsoft, Elevates Linux on Sub-notebooks

  • Subject: [News] Cringely: Charity Killer Breaks up with Microsoft, Elevates Linux on Sub-notebooks
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:41:14 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.9
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Atomic Warfare

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| And with Netbooks retailing under $400, compared to Microsoft Intel makes 
| hardly any profit at all.  So Microsoft has to die. 
| 
| This is a huge change for Intel, which has for decades acted as Microsoft’s 
| bitch, doing pretty much whatever Redmond demanded for fear of being 
| written-out of the next Windows PC hardware spec in favor of AMD or even IBM.  
| But that was the old Microsoft.  The Microsoft of today isn’t nearly as 
| powerful, whether they yet know it or not.    
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http://www.cringely.com/2009/06/atomic-warfare/

Attendance falls but Android dazzles

http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2009/060609-attendance-falls-but-android.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news


Recent:

Analysis: Intel rides Wind River beyond the PC

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| Intel Corp.'s acquisition of Wind River Systems Inc. is another indicator of
| the sea change occurring inside the world's biggest semiconductor maker—along
| with the rise of Linux across all markets.
|
| The x86 giant is expanding beyond big custom processors for its core desktop
| PC market and into a variety of system-on-chip (SoC) designs targeting a wide
| range of mobile, consumer and embedded markets. The industry-wide shift to
| multicore processors is also driving a need for a whole new set of parallel
| software tools.
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http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217701836


Intel buys Wind River: the End of the Wintel Duopoly?

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| Obviously, Intel has to tread carefully here, since it can't trumpet that
| Linux side too much, but the reality is rather stronger than those neutral
| statements would suggest.
|
| When I interviewed Wind River's Chief Marketing Officer last year, here's
| what he said when I explored the Linux angle...
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2246&blogid=14
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