It'll be souped to the max. Wouldn't suprise me to find out someday that wintel was a generous investor in carmack's rockets. carmack has done more for the wintel consortium than just about any other human being in the world.
carmack has done more for the wintel consortium Intel yes, Microsoft not really. Carmack is a big proponent of OpenGL and his games are cross-platform; MS would obviously prefer that he used DirectX.