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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (77200)	10/26/1999 4:39:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572963

Ted, <every intc long sees this deal as a bad thing for AMD. Why maintain the pretense at all of an unbiased opinion.> First of all, I never said this is a bad thing for AMD. I said that this is a non-event for AMD. Second, yes, MS is the biggest software company in the world. But how do you think they got there? That's right, they have control over the API, the OS, the software "pipeworks," and they've extended that toward bundling their applications with the OS. Heck, they're even calling one of their apps "part of the OS," if you can believe that. If you think that MS can apply the same strategies to the game market, you're totally mistaken, since games are have totally different market dynamics. Third, money does talk, but Sony and Nintendo have a lot of it. And who do you think will devote a larger chunk of their corporate budgets toward the home game market? Sony or Microsoft? And finally, I think you really ought to address your severe bias against Intel before you accuse me of doubting MS' game venture just because of some anti-AMD bias of mine. After all, a guy who thinks Intel's very existence in CPUs is questionable really ought to come back down to reality. Tenchusatsu