http://channeleye.co.uk/intel-impedes-windows-10/Intel impedes Windows 10The Brits and the Germans have a different, MUCH more adversarial relationship with Wintel than we do in the USA.
They also actively disbelieve a lot of the brown vapor flung out by the Wintel pair. And employees the British and German branches of both of the Wintel companies actively LEAK information to their buddies and from there to the press ..... regularly
But the do come up with things way ahead of anybody else ..... like this little internal MS nugget.
"Oct 31, 2014
A report said that sales of notebooks using Microsoft Windows 10 are likely to be hit because Intel will be tardy releasing an appropriate chip.
Digitimes Research said that the Intel Skylake microprocessor is supposed to be ready at the beginning of the third quarter in 2015 but will probably not hit the streets until the end of next year or even 2016.
The news will plunge Microsoft into the depths of despondency. It is already taking a hit because uptake of the notoriously shabby Windows 8.x isn’t going to plan.
Windows 10 is supposed to be the summum bonum – that is to say it will work properly because there won’t be a Windows 9. But it requires a chip improvement that isn't going to be available.
Digitimes Research estimates that Intel’s delays won’t make the acceptance of Windows 10 any easier and it appears the alliance between Microsoft and Intel is crumbling.
Intel could not be contacted for comment at press time."My take is that Intel is actually late with starting the Skylake detailed development and that they are going to have to rush to make the Apple imposed "drop dead" 2015 deadline (if Intel still wishes to be an Apple supplier that is).
So, Apple will be calling Intel's Skylake dance in year 2015 and Apple will be absorbing all of Intel's spare 14nm resources while it does so.
Microsoft gets bupkis out of Intel in 2015 as far as Windows support with any new 14nm "state of the art" chip goodies until Apple is fully satisfied and happy. Like maybe sometimes in 2016 ???
Apple is now bigger than MS now in every "new sales only" market category that you can mention, laptops included. Apple is also prone to LEVERAGE these Big 800 Pound Gorilla sales advantages to the detriment of their main competitors.
Microsoft is on the receiving end of their own nasty bag of tricks now. And MS is howling about the "little visitor" they are getting slipped to them by Apple.
Apple still feels it owes MS one up the kister for MS's copying their Apple "Macintosh Windows" environment back in the day ...... you know, the one Apple copied from Palo Alto Labs and DEC and IBM.
So, Apple has Intel's new Skylake processor production all locked up now, and they have ARM's next generation chipset tech all locked up and they functionally have all the current amount of 14nm processing all locked up both at Intel and at Samsung/Global.
It must be nice to be Apple right now .... getting to oh so slowly tighten the thumbscrews on MS while they wriggle and howl in impotent fury and fiscal pain.
Apple is now actively denying Microsoft the top end high profit product sales that MS needs to have to sell in the USA so they can fund all the rest of their Chinese loss leader BS right now.So, MS is committed to a massive freebee expansion in China with no bonus income flow to fund it ??? You ain't going to break your deals with the Chinese, they will kick your ass out of their country forever (and you bloody well know it). So you just have to lump it, MS.
Time to screw over our old USA customer / business user base all over again -- time to make them pay MS to upgrade something somehow, real fast.Or, (shudder) let some more workers go ......
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