In article , Martin
Barclay writes
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 once again "dennis" shows his ignorance about what MS actually did.

And how big were these discounts?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/14653.stm

Microsoft €˜killed Dell Linux €“ States
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03..._linux_states/

Cut a deal or you don't get Win95 €“ IBM faces PC suicide
In the months before the launch, MS cut off the air supply
http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/06...a_deal_or_you/

MS paid $50k to buy €˜Compaq of Europe out of DR-DOS deal
http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/05...id_50k_to_buy/

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.

So, "dennis" is saying that the BBC were wrong when they reported it?

2004 -
Microsoft gets green light to punish OS-less PC vendors.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/01...s_green_light/
It was going on long before 2004.
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bert