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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Wintel alliance looks in danger of dying according to an article by Theo Valich. Theo says that the breakup may center on the Xbox 360 and the introduction of AMD's x86-64 instruction set. But ...

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.

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." ...

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 ...

Last October, Gary Clark looked into La-Z Boy Inc.’s data center and pondered two pressing concerns: rack upon rack of network servers that were multiplying like rabbits and the mounting costs of ...