If Longhorn runs on Power PC, what need for Intel?
IT'S LIKELY that the multi-million OS experiment currently known as Longhorn will also run on Xbox 2s, posing a serious question for Intel in the future. Whither?
Sources claim that Microsoft is shoehorning faux screenshots of the GUI into the public domain, only to bring out something completely different when the day of the launch is that much nearer.
Yet if Microsoft decides that Longhorn runs not only on future Xboxes but on the Power PC platform as well, there's plenty of room to speculate that the Vole could acquire Apple and dump Intel, without the antitrust forces getting too excited.
Because Linux currently has more market share than Apple.
The Power PC licence Microsoft has could allow it to take designs from IBM to Samsung or other big fabrication centres and play the foundry game to its heart content.
Just the possibility of Microsoft dumping the entire Intel platform and moving to the Power PC instead must be causing shivers in Santa Clara, we'd suspect.
The Wintel partnership has survived for a long time, but it could be that it won't be too long before never the twain shall meet, again.
