"In China there are more tablets sold than [in] the United States. Guess what? Most of those are not on the Windows operating system," Weisler said."

Cnet? really? you quoted this?

Aside from that dumb as stones quote Intel sells chips. Intel sells chips to Microsoft and anyone else who will buy them. In that Intel will sell chips to people who aren't using windows it helps Microsoft's competitors. They aren't competing. Intel developed Haswel for Microsoft and it will continue to tick and tock as long as Microsoft has money.

Of course Intel is putting a great deal of money and brain power into improving it's ARM architecture but it isn't abandoning X86.