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Isn't MS making hardware now?
by sneakernets 7y ago
Isn't MS making hardware now?
- pwinnski 7y agoSure, though not enough to really be called a hardware company. The comparison was between MS in the 90s and Apple now, as I understood it. At the time they might have been making peripherals, maybe? But not computers.
- organsnyder 7y agoYeah, I don't recall any MS-branded computers back in the 90s. They were making mice and keyboards, but that's about it. And they have always been happy to sell a copy of Windows to anyone that wanted to run it (and had compatible hardware, which was already commoditized back in the 90s). I remember seeing news reports about the Black Friday-esque runs on stores at midnight the day of the Windows 95 release (while I was sitting smug at home because we had been running prerelease builds at home for months due to my dad's software company being a member of MSDN [or whatever the equivalent was at the time]).