Intel puts the squeeze on Microsoft

Some folks got all excited that Intel might be pondering a switch to the Macintosh for their corporate computing platform, after reading this article: Et Tu, Intel? Chip Giant Won’t Embrace Microsoft’s Windows Vista. That's not going to happen. Like most of the Fortune 500, Intel has got themselves so tightly wound around interlocking and ever changing Microsoft components, like almost-but-not-quite open directory servers, not-even-remotely-open Microsoft Office document formats, and compliant-with-open-standards-only-by-court-decree API that they can't leave us.

Intel is just putting the squeeze to us here at Microsoft. They essentially want us to give them Vista for free and beg them to upgrade.

No deal.

By Monday it will be them over there at Microsoft. I can hardly wait.

See, the thing about the logo is this

So somebody in the trenches got a bright idea to use the Yin Yang to reinforce the association between Windows and Office. Nicely done, making it look so much like the Apple logo for Universal binaries, right down to nearly the same colors, and flipping the image a bit. In a year, most of the world will think that Apple copied us. Just like they do with most of the other stuff. People think we invented the floating on-screen window. People think we invented just about everything we stole.