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The experience of dealing with OEMs, the cost of testing their OS with every piece of hardware under the sun, then watching the Mac guy vs Windows/PC guy ads mu
by TYPE_FASTER 6y ago
The experience of dealing with OEMs, the cost of testing their OS with every piece of hardware under the sun, then watching the Mac guy vs Windows/PC guy ads must have contributed to Microsoft making their own hardware. And trying to create an App Store for Windows.
Interesting that the thread did not include any mention of Microsoft’s licensing terms for OEMs charging per computer, even if it wasn’t shipped with Windows, which was viewed as a monopolistic practice.
- vxNsr 6y ago> Interesting that the thread did not include any mention of Microsoft’s licensing terms for OEMs charging per computer, even if it wasn’t shipped with Windows, which was viewed as a monopolistic practice. Not really relevant to his point. Also it sounds like when this sorta thing was happening he was part of the Office team so not really involved.