Custom processors are an interesting idea, but were Dell, HP, and Lenovo to go down this path, the resulting hardware complexity – and the chance for OS breakage – would increase dramatically. One way Microsoft is addressing this with its Surface line the company is starting to specify processors for the Surface X and the upcoming Surface Neo twin-screen laptop: from Qualcomm and Intel, respectively. This hardware variety is forcing Intel to speed its own development efforts – raising the possibility that maintaining OS reliability will get harder to do. But in some ways, this problem has worsened because AMD has risen to be a power and Qualcomm is now providing PC solutions. ![]() Things eventually evened out, and most of those problems are history. It allowed for a far more competitive market, but also one that was unusually plagued by incompatibilities and breakage because the two halves of the PC weren’t developed together.įor a time in the early parts of this century – when Intel and Microsoft weren’t even talking to each other very well – we got disasters like Windows Vista and Windows 8, platforms that even Microsoft would like to forget. But on the Windows side, the operating system quickly became decoupled. Apple built both, and IBM bought the rights to Windows so it could effectively do the same thing as well. When PCs were first created, the folks that built the OS and the folks that built the hardware were the same. Let’s explore rethinking PCs, virtual vachines, and operating systems this week.
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