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In article <pbfi85$ek7$1...@dont-email.me>,
Gareth's Downstairs Computer  <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>... by its monopolistic attitude towards the PC now
>that the World and its family are moving en masse to the
>ARM processors?

Microsoft doesn't care what processors people use.  There are versions
of Windows for all sorts of chips and of Office for all sorts of
operating systems.

>Is the PC also dying in the light of the RPi3, a 64
>bit processor available for the price of a few bananas?

A PC needs a case, a power supply perhaps including a battery, a
keyboard-like thing, a pointing device, a network connection, a
screen, interfaces for all of those, and in most cases sound and video
input and output.  Once you've got all that, then perhaps you can
think about what CPU chip to use.  It's pretty common these days for
the CPU and a lot of the interfaces to be on the same chip, so you
can't jus swap out one CPU for another.

Also, if you haven't been paying attention, Microsoft has a lot of
different lines of business, like Office 365 and XBox.  Their cloud
services bring in $19 billion/year.  They're not going away any time
soon.

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