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Erm no the DoJ anti trust ruling means that Ms can't dictate what the oems can or can't install on their machines.
by internetf1fan 14y ago
Erm no the DoJ anti trust ruling means that Ms can't dictate what the oems can or can't install on their machines.
- CountSessine 14y agoIf you go back and carefully read my post, I said nothing about whether Microsoft could 'dictate' to the OEMs - only that Microsoft doesn't want to sell hardware PCs and that hardware PC OEMs are almost necessarily bad because the market for PCs rewards low price and hardware component stats, not the overall usability, quality, or unique innovation of the product. Microsoft under Gates and Balmer demonstrated very clearly that they couldn't be trusted to exert their influence over the hardware OEMs. They couldn't resist using their power to hammer small start-ups selling potentially threatening new technologies. So yes, they've lost this lever that might otherwise have been used to protect PC buyers.