[laydros]

This is link bait. HP is just doing what we used to do until the 90's, making an OS tied to the hardware to optimize things. They have done this before.

Banks are still heavily run off of mainframes and IBM Power servers that aren't standard x86 running Windows or GNU/Linux.

This isn't a plan to destroy Windows, I expect most of the market that would be interested in "the machine" is currently running a mainframe or some unix variant/clone right now.