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- Wintel
- WINdows InTEL Refers to the world's largest computer environment, which is Windows running on an Intel CPU. See Lintel and Mactel.
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- Linux as Wintel parasite
- You have some questionable ideas.If Microsoft hadn't happened, there still would have been the PC, there still would have been GUIs perhaps a more expensive IBM monopoly one, and there still would have been the opportunity for anyone such as Linus to write a free alternative.I think to even use...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Wintel, Linux, interrupt, parasite, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., hardware, Red Hat Inc., Sun Solaris
- Discussion threads 2009-09-26
- Linux as Wintel parasite
- When Linus Torvalds choose to tie his new kernel to x86 he did so thinking, quite correctly as it turned out, that Microsoft's tendency to software bloat would provide an unending stream of cheep hardware for Linux developers and users. Great! except there's a side effect: Linux is ultimately dependent...
- Tags: Wintel, Microsoft Corp., Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-09-26
- Pano, Sun Ray, and the Wintel gestalt
- Distributed Computing is now180 degrees out of sync with the bandwagon. That means that Murph's ideas are being adopted whilst mine are being ignored. I guess this proves that I am not a mirror of Murph.DumbRays are just as expensive as this Pano stuff. And what do you get for...
- Tags: Wintel, DumbRay, Pano, Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-12
- Pano, Sun Ray, and the Wintel gestalt
- The Pano is popular with the PC press, Sun Ray untouchable - and yet, what's a Pano that isn't 15 years behind? by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Wintel, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, Pano, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-09-12
- Reformulating Murphy's law
- Reformulating Murphy's lawInteresting thoughtsIt's saddening that thought is such a rare thing among us humans.Imagine how different the world might have been.[i]"The applications to IT are less obvious but equally compelling. If you believe, for example, in the achievability of wintel security, you?ll spend lots of money setting your employer...
- Tags: Operating systems, Wintel, Unix
- Discussion threads 2009-08-01
- The Wintel blue light special
- The Wintel blue light specialI just can not stop laughing!! MS trying to win against Apple by being "cheaper". The Vista fiasco continues . . . .And where are those 2.000.000 macs sold this quarter?Lets see..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_desktop_operating_systemsNope, not here. Apple`s market share has remained THE SAME (9 percent at best from...
- Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Wintel, laptop computer, Vista fiasco, Compal
- Discussion threads 2009-07-26
- The Wintel blue light special
- Attention MSmart shoppers. Wintel's results are in the toilet and Apple's surpassed estimates. Despite Microsoft's sassy Laptop Hunter ads, Apple sold more Macs than anyone expected. Want to know why? Win on price, lose on price Behind the engaging little customer stories in the...
- Tags: Wintel, Apple Macintosh, Advertisement, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Price, Sales Strategy, Notebooks, Sales, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-07-26
- Managing IT in desperate times
- If you're working on the fiscal 2009/10 budget right now and in the United States - expect the economy to take a few more double whammies, focus on keeping your staff together, and plan on doing absolutely nothing you can avoid, except migrating your wintel machines to Windows...
- Tags: Wintel, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows 7, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-07-18
- OpenOSX WinTel 3.0 (Mac)
- WinTel is an easy-to-use, stand-alone application that allows host operating systems and applications such as Microsoft WindowsR and Ubuntu Linux to run in protected, virtual environments within windows on Mac OS X. All new version 3.0 first time brings true virtualization running on Intel Macs, drastically increasing performance, in some...
- Tags: Wintel, Apple Macintosh, OpenOSX, WinTel Product
- Software downloads 2009-06-12
- In netbook market, Wintel monopoly healthier than ever
- Booth personnel I talked with basically confirmed what I wrote about this in May, that there is a price lower than free. Microsoft can pull demand through Best Buys and Fry's with collateral, promotion, and other marketing aids. No Linux vendor has the money to compete with that. by Dana...
- Tags: Wintel, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Linux, Marketing Research, Open Source, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- The deed is done: now are you better off?
- The deed is done: now are you better off?Please detail these "PC security style attacks".[i]The only downside is that now you?re a little more susceptible to both external PC security style attack and internal Wintel monomania attacks - but hey, for you, neither is a big deal.[/i]IME security issues are...
- Tags: SECURITY, Operating systems, Wintel, attack
- Discussion threads 2009-03-05
- Flash vs Cash
- Flash vs CashGlobal Marketing CTO = oxymoron?Technical marketing? Is that taught in schools?Having Dtrace being able to scan through the entire stack from OS to storage is the game changer. EVERYONE is interested in system performance, and to do an accurate assessment you need good tools. These do NOT exist...
- Tags: UNIX, Storage, Operating systems, IBM AIX, Oracle Corp., EMC Corp., I/O, file system, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-02-19
- Rearview madness and Wintel customer spin
- Rearview madness and Wintel customer spinHyperthreading?Murph, could you explain the differences between real threading, the long abandoned hyperthreading used before multi-cores on intel chips and those new coolthreads?And maybe tell us why they are so desirable that you see intel go that way as well?Hyperthreading was essentially a poor-mans multicore...
- Tags: Processors, Nicolas Carr, Sun Microsystems Inc., Apple Inc., coolthread, HyperThreading, multi-core, Wintel
- Discussion threads 2009-02-11
- Rearview madness and Wintel customer spin
- Know what happens when critical suppliers fall further and further behind the technology curve? Right: they bring you down with them. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Wintel, Storage, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
- Rearview madness and Wintel customer spin
- Know what happens when critical suppliers fall further and further behind the technology curve? Right: they bring you down with them. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Wintel, Storage, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
- TCO, Wintel 7, and the G4 Mac
- TCO, Wintel 7, and the G4 MacDrivering me crazyDrivers are the bane of existence for computers - and that extends to all platforms. M$ has changed their driver structure a few times now recently for Riska. Linux has also had a few iterations with driver changes. The biggest weakness for...
- Tags: Security administration, ROI/TCO, Tools & Techniques, Patches, Microsoft Windows, Rudy, software, Wintel, TCO
- Discussion threads 2009-02-05
- TCO, Wintel 7, and the G4 Mac
- If you bought a PC in 2004 because it was cheaper and faster than a Mac - and then bought third party peripherals and a few software upgrades only to now find yourself dead-ended on XP and facing the costs for Wintel 7 - you probably paid all that money,...
- Tags: Wintel, Dell Computer Corp., Apple Macintosh, PC, Apple iMac, Apple Inc., TCO, Desktops, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
- Why people buy Windows
- Know why people buy Wintel? because other people make lots of money selling it and are correspondingly committed to making the customer believe. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Wintel, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- Why people buy Windows
- Know why people buy Wintel? because other people make lots of money selling it and are correspondingly committed to making the customer believe. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Wintel, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- Wintel community tyranny
- What;'s the right thing to do when your wintel friends jump up and down proclaiming that majority makes right? Quote John Stuart Mills, of course... by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Game, Wintel, Mouse, Society, Apple Inc., Government, Linux, Mice, Operating Systems, UNIX, CAD, Printers, Vertical Industries, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
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