Why are Microsoft and Intel slapping and pulling hair?

[steve2470]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/19/intel_microsoft_legacy/

Analysis

For all the cloudy proclamations Microsoft's boss Steve Ballmer has been making of late, the company's bread 'n' butter products remain on the desktop. And that's a fact that Intel, whose lengthy and prosperous partnership with Redmond recently took a major knock, knows only too well.

Which perhaps goes some way to explaining why Chipzilla's software chief Renée James has been publicly stirring the pot about Microsoft's development of its next Windows operating system.

She stated that non-x86 versions of Windows 8, as it is currently codenamed, won't "ever" run legacy applications.

Of course, MS has long been searching for a foothold in the tablet market, which is now dominated by Apple's iPad as well as slabs running Google's Android OS.

[CBGLuthier]

1. The only way MS could catch up in tablets is if they sold them for a dollar

and I think I would still save my money for a proper android tablet.

Gates said a long time ago that the PC era was not permanent. We are witnessing the beginning of the end. Some of us will always need computers to do the work we do but for many a smartphone or tablet will meet every computing (email web browsing) need they have.