We in IT love inflection points — events that somehow amalgamate past events and/or indicate how and why the future will be significantly different. The world of personal computing is entering, if not an inflection point, then an inflection process. This is due to the confluence of two converging technologies — Intel’s Ultrabook initiative and Microsoft’s new Windows 8 operating system. The former is Intel’s effort to assist its OEM partners to change the personal computing equation by delivering next-generation notebooks with world-class x86-based compute performance and power.
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Posted by: Charles King December 18, 2012 05:00 AMWe in IT love inflection points — events that somehow amalgamate past events and/or indicate how and why the future will be significantly different. The world of personal computing is entering, if not an inflection point, then an inflection process. This is due to the confluence of two converging technologies — Intel’s Ultrabook initiative and Microsoft’s new Windows 8 operating system. The former is Intel’s effort to assist its OEM partners to change the personal computing equation by delivering next-generation notebooks with world-class x86-based compute performance and power.