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US Report: Wintel 'Duopoly' Still Imperial, But No Longer Impregnable
News The standard-bearers of the PC industry -- the "Wintel" duopoly -- are under attack on multiple fronts. The courts, not customers, will likely have the largest say over the future of Wintel. It's enough to make one think what a few short years ago...
[May 11, 1998, 13:37]
Q&A (2): IBM's McAughtry On A Break From Wintel
News The key thing is that the consumer space is not Wintel. It's not NC versus PC versus Net PC for us. We make all of them. We're not saying: here are three choices, take your pick. We're saying: here are three directions depending on your environment.
[July 2, 1997, 17:00]
MS Strong Quarter Good News For Wintel
News The better than expected financials followed in the footsteps of similarly impressive numbers from Intel last week, suggesting the so-called 'Wintel' juggernaut is not slowing. Microsoft profit in the fiscal quarter ended September 30 rose 23 per...
[October 22, 1996, 10:57]
Leader: Raw Iron Or Wintel - Battle Lines Are Drawn
News More importantly, while much of that debate has in the past been resolutely at the mud-slinging level, Oracle and Sun will get the chance to prove whether there is a market opportunity for an appliance server alternative to Wintel that runs only...
[December 14, 1998, 12:10]
A Year Ago: Sequent Suffers Wintel Pangs
News Sequent is continuing to feel the pangs of change as it moves closer to Wintel through its strategy of building Intel-based products that run Windows NT as well as Digital Unix for sale into smaller accounts than its traditional data centre base.
[July 27, 1999, 6:08]
The Day Ahead: 'Wintel' Alive And Kicking
News We don't know how long the Wintel juggernaut will last, but Microsoft and Intel will set the Nasdaq pace at least for a day. It's just like old times on Wall Street as Intel and Microsoft are dominating the news.
[January 14, 2000, 15:28]
Sequent Suffers Wintel Pangs
News Sequent is continuing to feel the pangs of change as it moves closer to Wintel through its strategy of building Intel-based products that run Windows NT as well as Digital Unix for sale into smaller accounts than its traditional data centre base.
[July 28, 1998, 6:56]
WinTel Server 10 Times Less Expensive To Operate Than Linux Mainframe Benchmark Study
White Papers For the past several years, IBM has positioned its z900 mainframe as a superior platform for consolidation of Windows® servers, especially for file serving and web serving. However, IBM has provided no data based on standard, cross-platform...
[July 20, 2007, 4:21]
Tandem Shifts Into Wintel Mainstream
News The US firm introduced quad-processor Pentium Pro-based servers running Windows NT and Tandem's own clustering software. Bolstering its efforts to move into the computing mainstream, Tandem earlier this week appointed Enrico Pesatori as president...
[October 31, 1996, 9:52]
IDC Forum: Mobiles Will Kill Wintel
News Mobile phones will be the PC of the future and will become so at the expense of Microsoft and Intel according to speakers at the IDC European Telecoms Forum in Venice Tuesday. George Gilder, president of Gilder Technology Group, regarded in the...
[March 21, 2000, 16:28]
Optimizing The Performance Of Wintel Applications
White Papers The best medicine for most sorts of performance problems is invariably preventative. Despite advance in software performance engineering, developing complex computer programs that are both functionally correct and efficient remains a difficult and...
[November 8, 2003, 23:00]
The Day Ahead: Wintel Losing Investment Income Crutch
News Commentary: This is a tale of two investment portfolios -- Intel and Microsoft. Intel's investment income well has run dry amid a bunch of bad dot-coms in its portfolio. Microsoft's gains from investments are better, but the software giant's...
[January 19, 2001, 12:08]
WinTel Server 10 Times Less Expensive To Operate Than Linux Mainframe Audit Report
White Papers This report provides an auditor’s commentary of the Mainframe Linux Benchmark Project. It reviews the benchmark process and its appropriateness for the project at hand, the soundness of the methods used, and its likelihood for being reproducible.
[September 2, 2008, 7:35]
Is Apple On The Way Out?
Talkback is to go back to Wintel. Windows has never really worked like a Mac and it is there Linux will score because, unlike Mac users who are willing to pay for what they get, the "price of everything, value of nothing" folks on Wintel will jump ship...
[October 13, 2004, 19:50]
The Day Ahead: Gateway: Transmeta Customer Now, Rich Shareholder Later
News Down with Wintel. Many folks took the Transmeta deal to mean Wintel's influence was waning. Three cheers for Transmeta. That was the consensus from the tech world as techies rallied around privately held Transmeta, which makes semiconductors and...
[May 31, 2000, 11:23]
Apple Warned Over 'misleading' Power Mac Speed Claim
Talkback I use both Mac and WinTel every day (I run an ISP). I can tell you without a doubt that Mac's with OS X are many times better than the WinTel systems. You just can't do the things you can do with Unix on WinTel.
[June 12, 2004, 0:23]
Intel Has Designs On Apple
Talkback Imagine if Apple created an empty ugly box to mimic some extremely successful Wintel world product and then presented it at say Macworld. Yet in the desperately out of touch Wintel world this is actually taken seriously!
[March 5, 2005, 17:07]
Special Report: Developers Jumping Back To Mac
News It seems the flow of developers has been so strong in the other direction - from Mac to Wintel - in recent years, it's hard to believe this former Apple and NeXT developer when he says he plans to swim upstream.
[May 14, 1998, 10:43]
Apple IMac G5: A First Look
Talkback Macs are very easy to criticise, because they have lower clockspeeds than wintel boxes.may get you a 3.4Ghz wintel box, but even the 1.6Ghz iMac G5 can be considered faster, because a) The iMac features a 64bit processor b) The G5 inside the iMac...
[September 18, 2004, 8:21]
Apple Warned Over 'misleading' Power Mac Speed Claim
Talkback I work in an industry the apples outnumber wintel 5to1. I have also used wintel computers i don't care about speed i only wish windows would stop crashing. To the teacher i think you may be a teacher who does believe in creativity, because this is...
[July 15, 2004, 15:18]
