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Microsoft has tried their damndest to ensure that you must buy their OS in order to use a computer. They've done this directly using the Windows Tax, and indire
by nate_meurer 15y ago
Microsoft has tried their damndest to ensure that you must buy their OS in order to use a computer. They've done this directly using the Windows Tax, and indirectly with over two decades of anti-competitive business practices, some merely shady and others outright illegal.
"If you don't like it, then don't use it" is pretty useless advice in this situation.
- morsch 15y agoAnd the amazing thing is that they managed to do it again for Android. Except this time Apple is in a better spot than they were with PC operating systems.
- cgoddard 15y agoHuh? Microsoft has a very tiny hold in mobile computing. Android is Google.
- morsch 15y agoYes, but it's fairly difficult to get an Android phone without paying the Microsoft tax, at least in the US: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2012/01/microsoft-now-paid-royalties-on-70-of-us-android-smartphones.ars http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2012/01/microsoft-now-...