The market is too competitive for a business that's not operating at peak efficiency.

AMT is clever. The real key is remote management. It integrates into the platform. A microcontroller allows an administrator to wake the system up, even when it's lights out.

A monopoly is good for shareholders. You get a higher return on your investment than you should have.

The company built their name around modems, but the days of modems are long past,

The first thing we would see is the applications popping up on things like Solaris and Linux, which would bring them more strongly into play and potentially clear the way for other manufacturers to build Linux processors, ... But they still wouldn't have the benefit of all the legacy software, so I don't see that this is suddenly going to cause the whole Windows thing to fall over flat on its face.

You could see a lot more Linux on PCs. It could also allow for more Linux in appliances like DVD players.

I don't think there can be another one. Microsoft is sort of a fluke.

In places where this processor works well, it's going to provide a big advantage over everybody else,

In the long term, we're going to need media players on our PCs. It's going to be part of the standard digital content. And this just makes it a fraction harder for it all to be Microsoft.

Intel has pretty much dominated the computing environment, but it made some decisions that cramped its progress. It hasn't been able to handle the needed performance increases.