(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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- MicroWar 2.0rc3 (Mac)
- MicroWar is 'Space Invaders' style arcade game, in the cruel world of micro-compter industry. You're a Macintosh faced to invading Wintel hordes year after year, kill more PC. Bonuses let you improve your Mac performances or restore life... The game is free, under licence BSD, made with Python and...
- Software downloads 2009-11-03
- MicroWar 2.0rc3 (Windows)
- MicroWar is 'Space Invaders' style arcade game, in the cruel world of micro-computer industry. You're a Macintosh faced to invading Wintel hordes year after year, kill more PC. Bonuses let you improve your Mac performances or restore life.
- Software downloads 2009-11-03
- Scaring yourself and others
- Hogwash!First of all, if you're paying for a static IP address, why did your ISP change it? Did the notify you prior to changing it? If not, they can get in deep trouble for that.Second, on today's hardware using virtualization causes little to no noticeable performance hit. ...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-31
- Microsoft's Windows 7 challenge: Selling Live services (without being sued)
- What competitors?Other than iLife, who is competing with Live Essentials?These seem like little trivial programs to be fighting over. Besides the people complaining about bloat (Even though these programs don't take up much space), I don't think anyone would complain even if they were included in Windows to begin with.The...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-28
- Gartner: Windows 7 is 'all but inevitable'
- Completely Disagree with Gartner's Recommendations...I would be skipping Vista at this point, and aborting all Vista deployment plans. Why? Simple...Any IT staff that is deploying Vista en mass to their enterprises bought it with Volume Licensing, which means they probably bought it with Software Assurance... better to use those support...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
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- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hordes of owners complain of problems with HP Elite Pavilion PCs using Core i7 Ed Bott: Apple...
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-09-26
- News to know: Scareware; HP; SAP; Cloud computing
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dancho Danchev: The ultimate guide to scareware protection Gallery: The ultimate guide to scareware protection 9/11...
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- 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...
- 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
- Blog posts 2009-09-12
- Review: Snow Leopard ramps up performance and business-readiness of Mac OS X
- Graphic Artists on MacDo Graphic Artists really have a compelling reason to use Macs anymore? Adobe CS3 isn't supported on Snow Leopard. If you want to use 64bit versions of Adobe CS4, you have to use Windows. And even on the same hardware, programs like After Effects and Photoshop...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-08
- For your safety and convenience
- Somewhere deep in Shaw's vault there's a tape of me screaming at a customer "support" representative that I didn't (and still don't) give a star blank star about his script, booting and cabling have nothing to do with the issue because I don't have wintel, and to get his supervisor...
- Blog posts 2009-09-05
- Report: 1 in 5 portable computers shipped are netbooks
- No choiceThe hardware to run PC and smartphone functionality just will inevitably get cheaper and cheaper. Makers of smart phone chips like Qualcomm and all the ARM mfgrs are also going to join the party and put further pressure on the Wintel heavy pc industry. Displays will continue to get...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-31
- Vindications: ah, the week that was
- Well you realy dont do yourself any favours.any moments of clarity you may have are lost in the sea of anti "wintel" blog rage. Maybe if you were more objective and took comments less personal then you may find life better. na, ah doesn't does I?Find me...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-29
- Is Nokia losing focus by now expanding into the PC market with the Booklet 3G?
- Too early to tell, but.....Nokia runs the risk of becoming an "also ran" in a new and unfamiliar market. A better move IMHO would be to come out with a revolutionary Linux powered smartbook at a sub-netbook price. Nobody knows for sure where the mobile convergence is heading, but this...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-24
- Save money: buy from the enemy
- People keep joyfully telling me that real men buy wintel or lintel, never SPARC/Solaris - and the numbers on this are compelling: if the rate of increase in x86 price/performance falls by only 18% per year over the first five years after SPARC/Solaris (hypothetically!) disappears, the total cost increase...
- Blog posts 2009-08-22
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- Blog posts 2009-08-10
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- Discussion threads 2009-08-08
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