Opinion: What a cheap Windows 8 tablet tell us about the future of Intel and Microsoft

Opinion: What a cheap Windows 8 tablet tell us about the future of Intel and Microsoft   It's not the first time that both Intel and Microsoft have seen their hegemonies jeopardised. The last one was back in the 1990s when Apple tried to single-handedly take them on with a PowerPC-powered, Mac OS-infused platform. The result was disastrous and pushed the Cupertino-based company to the brink of bankruptcy.A feeling of deja-vuFast-foward to this decade and it is abundantly clear that the two compeers are once again facing the same sort of challenge that could permanently damage their business models. Read more >