Fast moving organisations are ditching Intel left right and centre. Why beholden to higher prices, weaker performance and supply chain issues? When there's a ready-made alternative right there.
Of course, we all know that the supertanker-like organisations of this world with only teaspoons so steer them cannot nearly react so quickly. Why else is Win7 still on probably 75-80% of "big business" PC's? Maybe more? And Intel? Very large chunk of the market - even if it's legacy installs. There's a shipping container outside my office full of older Intel/Lenovo laptops that will be built, re-issued, and rebuilt-and-reissued for quite some time to come before any change in the hardware inventory will come to light.
There is a warped part of me that would like to see a genuinely widespread attack against the much talked about vulnerabilities, rather than just minor damage here and there. A good, hard slap might be just what the world needs to wake up.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
