Could you, please, provide some real-life facts and numbers substantiating this statement?
Apart from that "The GeForce chips are the exact same chips as those found in high-end Quadro cards, only clocked to a lower frequency, and with different firmware because they failed the quality assurance test"? No. Sorry. But why do you think overclocking occasionally works? Because the chip was originally designed to only run at 500Mhz? Please. I was wrong it wasn't Commodore/ZX Spectrum it was the apple II (though I'm sure I have a Spectrum/Amiga game knocking aroud somewhere in my collection)
What? Did you miss this paragraph from the (woefully factually and historically inaccurate) article you linked to?Although titles such as Olympic Decathlon and Adventure are among the company's consumer hits, this effort is eventually folded back into the company, and the consumer market doesn't really take off for more than a decade. - 1979
And you remember that MS BASIC was poor.
I know it was. All the way from 1.1 to Visual Basic, not a single version of which was the least bit capable of running a program written in an earlier version. It wasn't even proper BASIC. More like Bastard BASIC. Before Microsofts hatchet job, BASIC was a well defined and well respected language. If you want to know why people today look down on BASIC as a poor language, well here's your explanation. Intel released the PCI (PCIx I believe isn't, read somewhere that Intel wasn't renewing ATI's license when ATI was bought out by AMD) spec's to the public domain
Intel did not come up with the PCI specification, and it is not an open standard, it is governed by the PCI Special Interest Group. The specification is not in the public domain, nor wholly or partially owned by Intel, nor has it ever been. I think you may be confusing it with older buses (AT/XT) designed and unilaterally enforced by IBM. The PCI specification is only available for purchase, by members of the PCI-SIG (including but not limited to AMD). My be I shoud have said "Microsoft Windows is on lets say 95% of all Personal Computers (Desktop)".
Then you'd still be wrong (in China and India for instance, the two most heavily populated countries in the world, Linux is quite popular, moer so than Windows), and still wouldn't have addressed the fact that "Microsoft Windows" is a brand name for at least 12 different MAYOR versions of more or less different operating systems, several versions of which are not intercompatible, and a brand name that spans more than 2 decades. After all which is the richest software company on the planet
Well companies aren't "rich" - they have equity. As for software companies, I'm thinking Novell, as Microsoft hasn't really been a software company for a while, and their home entertainment division (responsible for such run-away successes as the WebTV and XBox brands) is hemorrhaging half a million dollars a day.