At this year’s CES two unthinkable things happened:
1. The abandonment of Windows exclusivity by practically all of Microsoft’s OEM customers.
2. The abandonment of Intel exclusivity by Microsoft for the next generation of Windows.
“Many of Microsoft’s customers chose to use an OS product from Microsoft’s arch enemy. Some chose to roll their own,” Dediu writes. “Microsoft, in turn, chose to port its OS to an architecture from Intel’s arch enemy.”
Dediu writes, “These actions confirm the end of the PC era.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Good riddance to bad rubbish. (And, before you ask: Yesss, the last time we used that one must have been in 4th grade, but it is so appropriate, you must admit.)
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “iWill” for the heads up.]
Karma ??
Windows has run on other chips in the past and does now.
AMD, Sun Spark. Ect.
Now that more people will be accessing the web via alternative platforms and different operating systems, web designers will no longer be able to take the lazy option and assume that most visitors will use IE on Wintel. Unless they write standards compliant code, they will be cutting themselves off from more and more users.
When compliant code is the norm, using a browser other than IE becomes much simpler. Users will not need to use IE and can adopt one of the many alternatives, which offer many advantages.
It’s not just the end of Wintel, the decline of IE will gather pace too.
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@Jeff
AMD is an Intel clone.
Yes, NT ran on other chips. Hardly anyone used it, and MS dropped it long ago.
BTW, NT ran on MIPS and DEC Alpha, but not Sun Sparc.
And Apple is behind the ARM. ARM = Apple, Acorn and VLSI and later others.
1/2 an hour after I first used a Mac was the end of the PC for me. The Dark Ages are ending. Rejoice!
@One Guy From Finland
I’m not disputing your comment but ARM originally meant Acorn RISC Machine. Then it was changed to Advanced RISC Machine when the Acorn & Apple connection was severed. Apple dropped ARM back when the Newton was pulled.
But it’s good to see that they picked ARM for their A4 Cortex design.
Don’t know what Sun Spark is, but AMD is x86… which is the whole point…
Sun SPARC runs on a variant of Unix called Sun Solaris which shares a common heritage with OS X being certified as Unix compliant.
In fact the development of the next OS X file system ZFS was derived from work done by Sun engineers. Development work on ZFS by Apple has since stopped after Oracle’s takeover of Sun.
You’re doing a heckuva job, Balmy.
@ ChrissyOne It’s my neck I tell you!, It’s my neck on the line hence that weird crink on my neck, ooohhh! the pain MDN, it really is painful to observe.
@C1
Thanks for the vote of confidence.
Don’t be put off by my nick. I just use it to piss the ‘zealots’ off on here, present company excepted.
@Ballmer’s left nut
I think C1 was talking about the rest of you …
@ Ballmer’s left nut: “ARM originally meant Acorn RISC Machine. Then it was changed to Advanced RISC Machine when the Acorn & Apple connection was severed”
It was originally Acorn RISC Machine, but was actually renamed to Advanced RISC machine after Apple and VLSI partnered to recreate the ARM architecture for mobile devices.
Apple didn’t exactly drop ARM after the Newton as it was the CPU that powered the iPod and their Airport Base Stations.
And picking ARM for the A4 was a no brainer as all previous versions of the iPod touch and iPhone already used ARM.
@ Jeff: “Windows has run on other chips in the past”
That was only server versions of Windows, consumer version has always run on x86. Windows 8 will supposedly break that. How they plan on supporting legacy software remains to be seen, that is, if they do at all.
@skylark
Don’t think, it’ll just hurt your brain. I’m sure C1 can talk for herself.
@Michael Tomlin
I stand corrected. I read somewhere that Apple severed its connection with ARM after it exited Newton. But I’m sure you’re right about ARM being used in the iPod line.
@ Ballmer’s left nut:
You probably read that Apple sold off its stake in ARM Holdings, LTD.
http://www.applematters.com/article/april-5-1998/
Flea alert!!!!!
But what a revolution the 386 was. Full motion video, stereo sound, internet,6 gig drives, 128 meg of RAM, it was heady stuff then.
Out with one (Microsoft) and in with another (Google). Different company name…same EVIL.
Ding Dong the witch is dead!
I’m looking forward to an ARM-based Mac myself!
@ Spudly
Yep. It looks to be that way alright.