Opinion Say what you like about its role in the destruction of civilization, the net is still good for a few party games. Take bets on when the "Wintel Empire" was first reported as under attack, and by what. Then go and find out.

For younger readers, the Wintel Empire bestrode the IT globe from the mid 1980s to the 2010s. It still looks in place on the business desktop, but it has lost the three major structural components that defined the almost geological integrity of the giant continent of Intel chips as the bedrock and Windows as the lush life-supporting landscape on top. You can find intimations of its vulnerability as far back as 1998, but these are forced to fantasize about legal moves to divest the duopoly. That was the best anyone could hope for. The internet that most people sa

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