Maybe the tax rebates will help. People always love to spend unexpected money.
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Microsoft Expected to Post Sharp Profit Rise
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Maybe the tax rebates will help. People always love to spend unexpected money.
Most people would keep their preferences. Not many people who buy prebuilt computers want them to come with Linux, and OS X computers are already available and popular.
But that's still off-topic...
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At first and for many years, perhaps, out of sheer inertia. I believe that it would seriously even the playing field and there would be much more variety out there in the long run though. MS became dominant in the first place due to their restrictive OEM agreements after all.
And to truly make unbundle all OS's from the hardware, OS X would have to be available for all x86 computers, not just blessed Macs, and Macs would have to be available with Windows or Linux pre-installed too...Steve Jobs would rather wear a tutu to Macworld than allow that to happen though, so it will continue to be relegated to a niche no larger than desktop Linux. A profitable niche, but a niche nonetheless.
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You certainly don't believe it was because of ease-of-use back when they became dominant in the MS-DOS days, do you?
ZDNet said:
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They became the most popular through predatory business practices, period. If you believe otherwise, you're simply deluding yourself. That's not to say they make bad products (some are quite good, but then other companies make good products too), but that has nothing to do with why they are successful.
You certainly don't believe it was because of ease-of-use back when they became dominant in the MS-DOS days, do you?
(from here)
They became the most popular through predatory business practices, period. If you believe otherwise, you're simply deluding yourself. That's not to say they make bad products (some are quite good, but then other companies make good products too), but that has nothing to do with why they are successful.
Nice try. You're reading that as MS is forced upon *US* rather than Microsoft's earliest attempt to curb piracy. Microsoft couldn't rely on us to buy Windows for every computers. We buy one copy and use them on everything we had, and Microsoft natually would lose money.
So the earliest attempt to curb piracy was to have OEM buy the products instead of the customers. Well why not? Everyone used Windows ANYWAYS! Except now this time it's paid for.
But regardless! You go to any store and you wouldn't find Linux or MacOS on the shelf. Just Microsoft products. It's like AMD. If you don't advertise your products, people's not gonna know about it.
Stop reading it as Microsoft is shoving Windows down our throats, and start reading it as Microsoft was trying to curb piracy.