However, there has been a very significant paradigm shift, what Andy Grove referred to as a ‘business inflection point’, to the point that the answer to the most critical computing technology questions is now usually not a PC.

Given the recent explosion of alternatives to Wintel, it is perhaps hard to see why people will keep paying ‘Wintel’s ‘monopoly tex’ for the privilege of running Window 8.1 on their Intel processor when there are now much cheaper alternatives around.

In short Wintel will have to adapt to world of lower margins and higher competition, and this is hard. History shows that paradigm shifts of this sort usually lead to a new order with new market leaders. So my prognosis for the PC market is less optimistic than yours.