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Originally Posted by HarryT
Going BACK to multi-platform. Don't forget that it's been multi-platform in the past. NT was originally available for DEC Alpha and IBM/Motorola PowerPC CPUs as well as for Intel.
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How big was the market for all those platforms combined? Compare that to Arm world.
With Visual Studio that can cross platform and actual demand for applications on non-x86 CPUs (assuming, people would actually use windows on Arm
), I pity Intel.
Who's locked to Wintel at the moment? Gaming crowd (DirectX), MS Office users. "I just want to browser web/ watch video/check emails" consumers will be swept away from wintel to tablets and co. MS just doesn't want to go down with x86, it's not much of an anti-intel move.