Microsoft has been pushier: in the mid-1990s, for instance, Mr Gates leaned heavily on Andy Grove, Intel’s boss, to stop the development of software that trod on Windows’ turf.

微软是Wintel阵营的推动者，例如，在90年代中期，比尔盖茨向英特尔总裁安迪格罗夫施压，要求其停止涉足Windows领域的软件开发；