Hmmm, competition between Intel and AMD resulted in the 2Gig + chips we have now.

But, competition in the OS field would fragment the industry.

But, competition in the chip field, even though you can't run just any chip on just any motherboard now, is a good thing.

Strangely enough, Asus can manage different lines of motherboards for different chips.

And they're hardware.

But the software people wouldn't be able to do so?

And I'm not even getting into whether the core OS (as opposed to browser and solitare and such) would even be affected by this.