PowerPC to find a new role after its NT failure

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Is Microsoft's decision to end NT development for the PowerPC thefinal nail in the platform's coffin? Tim Phillips reports.

Last December, Microsoft chief operating officer Robert Herbold was asked whether his company would continue to develop NT for the PowerPC. His response was a heavy hint that the end was nigh for N...

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