On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:12:15 -0000, Tim Streater wrote:

In article . com,
dennis@home wrote:

On 14/12/2016 14:40, Martin Barclay wrote:

And that is because MS, when Gates & Ballmer were in control, threatened
& cajoled OEMs to install MS Windows & /only/ MS Windows on their
computers. They even tried to stop OEMs selling "bare bones" PCs, on the
pretext that "pirated versions of Windows" could be installed.
It's all documented online, as Google search would show.

Its also rubbish.
M$ had discounts available for manufacturers that licensed all their
machines they did for windows.

And how big were these discounts?

75% (well that was my discount anyway). And you didn't have to put M$ on every PC.

A bit like apple licenses its OS on all the machines it makes.

Not like it at all. Apple makes the machine and the O/S for it too.

At no point did they try and force anyone to stop selling bare bones.

If the discounts were large then it amounts to the same thing.

No it doesn't. You can sell bare bones and make it even cheaper.

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