" incredibly easy ride, producing mediocre, commodity computers, and getting very rich in the process" My god! Another way to say that they did all the hard wo

" incredibly easy ride, producing mediocre, commodity computers, and getting very rich in the process" My god! Another way to say that they did all the hard work(the hardware itself) and earned 1-3% margin in the process. ...while MS will earn margins bigger than 95% on Office and Windows. >30% margins as the entire company(Once MS spent billions trying to extend his monopoly to other sectors). OEMs are not going away. It is MS who is in danger. OEMs are the Vietcom, used to live on a cage or in the jungle, eating scraps. People that want cheap PCs will continue buying them with Windows 7, Linux or Android.