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To force a lucrative cycle of hardware upgrades, you need software to do the opposite.

True story: Back in the early aughties, Intel was hosting regular seminars for dealers and integrators selling either Intel-made PC's, or white box ones. I attended one of those, and the Intel rep openly claimed that Intel had challenged Microsoft to produce software which could bring a GHz CPU to its knees.




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