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On Sat, 21 Apr 2018 16:43:48 -0000 (UTC), John Levine
<jo...@taugh.com> wrote:

>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.

There's a version of Windows for the Raspberry pi.  However I do not
see them flying off the shelves at Best Buy--what they have and are
selling are HPs and Lenovos and Samsungs and Microsofts.

I have a pi, it's a nice little thing to mess with, but its I/O is
rather limited and while the performance is adequate for word
processing and the like it's not up to the kind of number-crunching I
do to make a living.

If all one wants to do is web surfing one doesn't need a purpose-made
computer, one just needs to plug keyboard and mouse into the USB ports
on the TV and use its built-in browser.