Vendors were the least affected by all this and they just did whatever was most profitable for them. Remember that the original message i wrote above wasn't abo

Vendors were the least affected by all this and they just did whatever was most profitable for them. Remember that the original message i wrote above wasn't about vendors but about by the time Windows XP came out it was already riding a huge popularity wave that began back in the DOS days. Whatever vendors took out of it, this sort of tactics made DOS hugely popular.