Just wondering
Back in the day, hardware manufacturers were able to crack IBM's monopoly by utilising BIOS chips that had been "clean engineered" without reference to the original IBM code. Shirley we must be reaching a point where it's feasible to engineer an OS (and chips, maybe) that can run existing Windows software, without Windows.
Not VM software, but a complete OS. I know WINE goes some way to achieving this but I'm thinking of a standalone setup