Intel, Microsoft still tight despite Linux strain
crn.com | at | by Mike
Intel said its relationship with Microsoft remains strong in spite of its support for Linux and Microsoft's backing of AMD. The two vendors, once inextricably linked as the WinTel duopoly, continue to collaborate while backing other horses.
"Microsoft doesn't like us working with other software vendors any more than we like Microsoft working with other silicon vendors, but that's been going on," said Will Swope, general manager of Intel's Software and Solutions Group, noting that Linux hasn't changed his relationship with the top brass in Redmond, Wash. "No, not all that much."